Sorry, I had to revert this patch.  C locale uses "" as "not
applicable", while French uses "" for "don't want".  The C locale folks
rely too much on the existing behavior.

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pgman wrote:
> 
> Interesting.  We should be able to handle a "" thousands separator.  In
> fact, psql does, but to_char() does not.
> 
> Looking at to_char(), it seems that we should be able to handle "" for
> thousands and plus sign.
> 
> I have applied the following patch for 8.2.  I have not applied to 8.1.X
> because it is a behavior change.
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Daniel Verite wrote:
> >     Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > 
> > > St?phane SCHILDKNECHT wrote:
> > > > select to_char(1485.12, '9G999D99');
> > > 
> > > > But, surprinsingly, I got 1,1485,12.
> > > 
> > > The fr_FR locale is broken.  You should report this to glibc.
> > 
> > On my debian sarge with LC_NUMERIC set to [EMAIL PROTECTED], a
> >   printf("%'g\n", 1485.12);
> > produces 1485,12 with which seems to be correct given that the
> > 'thousands_sep' locale entry is set to "" (empty string) and
> > 'decimal_point' to U002C
> > 
> > On the other hand, what postgres produces is:
> > test=> set lc_numeric='[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
> > SET
> > test=> select to_char(1485.12, '9G999D99'); 
> >   to_char  
> > -----------
> >   1,485,12
> > (1 row)
> > 
> > which is wrong with regard to thousands_sep="".
> > 
> > In fact, grep'ing the source code reveals that, when 'thousands_sep' is set 
> > to
> > an empty string, it gets ignored and a comma is used instead.
> > I'm referring to backend/utils/adt/formatting.c, NUM_prepare_locale() in 
> > 8.1.2:
> > 
> >   /*
> >    * Number thousands separator
> >    */
> >   if (lconv->thousands_sep && *lconv->thousands_sep)
> >           Np->L_thousands_sep = lconv->thousands_sep;
> >   else
> >           Np->L_thousands_sep = ",";
> > 
> > What's wrong with lconv->thousands_sep being set to an empty string?
> > Shouldn't it be used nonetheless?
> > 
> > -- 
> >  Daniel
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> Index: src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.104
> diff -c -c -r1.104 formatting.c
> *** src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c        12 Feb 2006 04:44:15 -0000      
> 1.104
> --- src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c        12 Feb 2006 19:48:28 -0000
> ***************
> *** 3720,3734 ****
>               else
>                       Np->L_negative_sign = "-";
>   
> !             if (lconv->positive_sign && *lconv->positive_sign)
>                       Np->L_positive_sign = lconv->positive_sign;
>               else
>                       Np->L_positive_sign = "+";
>   
>               /*
> !              * Number thousands separator
>                */
> !             if (lconv->thousands_sep && *lconv->thousands_sep)
>                       Np->L_thousands_sep = lconv->thousands_sep;
>               else
>                       Np->L_thousands_sep = ",";
> --- 3720,3735 ----
>               else
>                       Np->L_negative_sign = "-";
>   
> !             /* Might be "" */
> !             if (lconv->positive_sign)
>                       Np->L_positive_sign = lconv->positive_sign;
>               else
>                       Np->L_positive_sign = "+";
>   
>               /*
> !              * Number thousands separator (might be "")
>                */
> !             if (lconv->thousands_sep)
>                       Np->L_thousands_sep = lconv->thousands_sep;
>               else
>                       Np->L_thousands_sep = ",";

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