On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: >> Plus we already have \pset numericlocale as a similar feature in psql. > > But \pset numericlocale is also a crock. It doesn't affect COPY output > for instance, and its ability to identify which data types it should apply > to is really shaky. And it's virtually unused, as demonstrated by the > fact that serious bugs in it went undetected for many years (cf 4778a0bda, > 77130fc14). That's a really poor advertisement for the usefulness of the > proposed feature.
FWIW, I didn't realize that we had "\pset numericlocale" until about a year ago. I now use it all the time, and find it very useful. -- Peter Geoghegan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
