Re: [PATCHES] thousands comma numeric formatting in psql

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:48:40AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 12. Juli 2005 05:29 schrieb Bruce Momjian:
> > > > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > The current state allows users to manually set the format, or
> > actually only one aspect of the format?  Where can you set the
> > decimal separator and the size of the grouping (3 digits or 4
> > digits)?  Is this capability even useful to get localized
> > behavior?
> 
> You can't change the grouping from three,

This makes it a non-starter, IMHO.  One set of people who use 4 digits
is this little ethnic group called the Chinese.

> > My other concern is that if we allow manual specification of the
> > output format of some data type, then eventually someone will want
> > to specify the format of some other data type as well, such as the
> > date/time types.  We should think about whether we want to be
> > consistent here.
> 
> We do allow MDY and DMY specification, but that controls both input
> and output in the server, while this just controls psql display.  It
> is a good question how other settings should be handled, but I don't
> know the answers.  Anyone?

Hrm.  I think we can safely tackle input and output as separate
features here.  What do we do for to_char() with such separators?

Cheers,
D
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