Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 13:32:37 +0100
From: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgreSQL.org>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Cc: Oscar Serrano <oserra@fondos.net>, pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Spanish format on date and numbers
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On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 04:38:19PM +0000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> By contrast, we use the system-supplied numeric i/o routines, so don't
> have full control over formatting options. That may be a good thing,
> since I would assume the system does a more efficient job than we
> would.

So postmaster may output a localized number but it cannot parse a statement
that contains a localized number, right? 

If this is correct, I have to honor locales for output but not for input. 

Michael
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