Re: insert column monetary type ver 2 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: insert column monetary type ver 2
Date
Msg-id 3443422.1637512030@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: insert column monetary type ver 2  (Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: insert column monetary type ver 2  (Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> writes:
> On 11/20/21 11:01 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> A quick lookup later, that's U+202F or "narrow no-break space".
>> cash_in is picky about this, and won't take plain ASCII space as
>> a substitute.  Not sure if it should.

> It probably should, based on the Robustness Principle: "be conservative in 
> what you send, be liberal in what you accept".

The contrary argument is that people tend not to like "best guess"
behavior when working with monetary amounts.

            regards, tom lane



pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: Re: pg_dump insert column GENERATED
Next
From: Adrian Klaver
Date:
Subject: Re: pg_dump insert column GENERATED