Re: [HACKERS] lc_numeric and decimal delimiter

2005-11-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
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

Re: [HACKERS] lc_numeric and decimal delimiter

2005-11-08 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Gavin Sherry wrote: Hi all, I am at OpenDBCon in Germany. People are complaining about floats/numerics not accepting German/European conventions for the delimiter point -- a comma. This is hard coded into the the numeric input parser but, naturally, we use strtod() in else where. I'm not sure

Re: [HACKERS] lc_numeric and decimal delimiter

2005-11-08 Thread Alvaro Herrera
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. This is hard coded into the the numeric input parser but, > naturally, we use strtod() in else where. I'm not sure abou

Re: [HACKERS] lc_numeric and decimal delimiter

2005-11-08 Thread Tom Lane
Gavin Sherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am at OpenDBCon in Germany. People are complaining about floats/numerics > not accepting German/European conventions for the delimiter point -- a > comma. This is hard coded into the the numeric input parser but, > naturally, we use strtod() in else wher