Re: lc_numeric and negative-prefix

På torsdag 26. september 2019 kl. 00:53:28, skrev Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
<mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>>: Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas(at)visena(dot)com> writes:
> Can anybody shed som light
> on when negative-prefix is supposed to be respected by PG's
> formatting-functions? In lc_numeric='nb_NO.UTF-8' negative-prefix is
'−'(8722),
> not '-'(45), at least in the JAVA-world, but it seems the JDBC-driver must
use
> lc_numeric='C' when parsing server output. -- Andreas Joseph Krogh CTO /
Partner

PG does not consider LC_NUMERIC at all when producing output from
the standard numeric data types (and we aren't going to start).
AFAIR the only functions that do pay attention to LC_NUMERIC are
to_char() and friends.

regards, tom lane Thanks for clarifying. -- Andreas Joseph Krogh CTO / Partner
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