Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Ultimately, the result was that glibc was wrong in its locale settings,
> and there was a suggestion to use defaults only when using the C locale.
> However, I am worried there are too many locales in the field that only
> define some of the locale setting, so doing defaults only for the C
> locale might not work.
> The minimal patch I wrote (attached), suppresses the default for the
> thousands separator only if is is the same as the decimal separator. I
> think this is the only area where the default could potentially match
> the locale setting for another field.
Should we really go introducing strange misbehaviors into our code to
work around an admitted glibc bug?
regards, tom lane
