Re: lc_numeric and negative-prefix - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andreas Joseph Krogh
Subject Re: lc_numeric and negative-prefix
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Msg-id VisenaEmail.2.ca0eeb68bbbb2fc3.16d6aa6a359@tc7-visena
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In response to Re: lc_numeric and negative-prefix  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general
På torsdag 26. september 2019 kl. 00:53:28, skrev Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas@visena.com> writes:
> Can anybody shed som light
> on when negative-prefix is supposed to be respected by PG's
> formatting-functions? In lc_numeric='nb_NO.UTF-8' negative-prefix is '−'(8722),
> not '-'(45), at least in the JAVA-world, but it seems the JDBC-driver must use
> lc_numeric='C' when parsing server output. -- Andreas Joseph Krogh CTO / Partner

PG does not consider LC_NUMERIC at all when producing output from
the standard numeric data types (and we aren't going to start).
AFAIR the only functions that do pay attention to LC_NUMERIC are
to_char() and friends.

regards, tom lane
 
 
Thanks for clarifying.
 
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Andreas Joseph Krogh
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Mobile: +47 909 56 963
 
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