Re: to_char and i18n
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Manuel Sugawara <masm@fciencias.unam.mx>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>
Date: 2005-12-22T04:50:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Manuel Sugawara <masm@fciencias.unam.mx> writes: > Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes: >> I thought to_char already had i18n behavior. What exactly are you >> thinking of changing? > The modifiers that are suitable to localize. Month and day names comes > to mind and maybe others, I'm not sure what the state of the code is, > but I can say that, at least, the 'month' and 'day' modifiers does not > behave in a localized way. Can we spell the names differently but keep to the same field widths? I can see where it might cause problems to change the widths --- other than that, no objection. regards, tom lane