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From: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgreSQL.org>
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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Spanish format on date and numbers
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On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 03:41:59PM +0000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> If we started allowing commas in numeric strings it would conflict
> with usual usage; e.g.
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>   select 123,156;

And another reason why we should not add locale to SQL.

Michael
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