Gavin Sherry wrote: > I am at OpenDBCon in Germany. People are complaining about > floats/numerics not accepting German/European conventions for the > delimiter point -- a comma.
Supporting localized input formats everywhere (numbers, geometric objects, date/time, arrays, etc.) will create dozens of incompatible PostgreSQL variants. I think a preferrable solution would be use an updatable view that has, say, to_numeric tied in somewhere. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
