Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:03:43PM +0300, Eugen Nedelcu wrote: >> This is a patch for psql client and not for the backend.
> I think it would be much nicer if it was a backend setting. Doing this as a backend setting has been proposed and rejected before. The risk of breaking client code seems to outweigh any possible value. As a psql setting, though, it seems relatively harmless --- certainly no more dangerous than \x or the other pset formatting parameters. > If it depended on the locale setting (LC_NUMERIC, I think) Yes, I wanted to ask that too --- if the patch can cope with locales that exchange the roles of comma and period, that would make a lot of people very happy. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match