On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 10:22:32AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> We can't mess around with SQL syntax --- or would you like
>
> SELECT 12,34;
>
> to have locale-dependent results?
Well that exactly was what I wanted to express. Sorry if I was unclear.
> However, I think we could make the type-specific I/O routines for
> appropriate types be locale-dependent. So you could do
>
> SELECT '12,34'::int4;
>
> and get the desired behavior in a locale where , is the radix point.
I'm not sure this is the right thing to do.
Michael
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