On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:48:40AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 12. Juli 2005 05:29 schrieb Bruce Momjian: > > > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > The current state allows users to manually set the format, or > > actually only one aspect of the format? Where can you set the > > decimal separator and the size of the grouping (3 digits or 4 > > digits)? Is this capability even useful to get localized > > behavior? > > You can't change the grouping from three,
This makes it a non-starter, IMHO. One set of people who use 4 digits is this little ethnic group called the Chinese. > > My other concern is that if we allow manual specification of the > > output format of some data type, then eventually someone will want > > to specify the format of some other data type as well, such as the > > date/time types. We should think about whether we want to be > > consistent here. > > We do allow MDY and DMY specification, but that controls both input > and output in the server, while this just controls psql display. It > is a good question how other settings should be handled, but I don't > know the answers. Anyone? Hrm. I think we can safely tackle input and output as separate features here. What do we do for to_char() with such separators? Cheers, D -- David Fetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 510 893 6100 mobile: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend