On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:39:48 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net> writes:
> > I never received a response on this. Here is the full diff with the
> > above change. Since it is documentation and not code, is it OK to
> > commit this now?
>
> The added text needs some copy-editing, I think. How about
>
> Since the output of this data type is locale-sensitive, it may not
> work to load <type>money</> data into a database that has a different
> setting of <varname>lc_monetary</>. To avoid problems, before
> restoring a dump make sure <varname>lc_monetary</> has the same value
> as in the database that was dumped.
>
> (Actually, the first of the two lc_monetary references should be
> an xref link to the GUC variable, but I'm too lazy to type that out.)
>
> A more direct approach to the problem might be to change pg_dump to
> set lc_monetary, as it does for client_encoding ...
Certainly OK by me.
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