Re: On non-Windows, hard depend on uselocale(3) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> BTW is this comment in snprintf.c true?

>  * 1. No locale support: the radix character is always '.' and the '
>  * (single quote) format flag is ignored.

> It is in the backend but only because we nail down LC_NUMERIC early
> on, not because of any property of snprintf.c, no?

Hmm, the second part of it is true.  But given that we punt float
formatting to libc, I think you are right that the first part
depends on LC_NUMERIC being frozen.

            regards, tom lane