Re: insert column monetary type ver 2

Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>

From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2021-11-22T01:08:59Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On 11/21/21 10:27 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> writes:
>> On 11/20/21 11:01 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> A quick lookup later, that's U+202F or "narrow no-break space".
>>> cash_in is picky about this, and won't take plain ASCII space as
>>> a substitute.  Not sure if it should.
>> It probably should, based on the Robustness Principle: "be conservative in
>> what you send, be liberal in what you accept".
> The contrary argument is that people tend not to like "best guess"
> behavior when working with monetary amounts.

Best Guess is relative.  Breaking because of "ASCII Space" instead of 
"narrow no-break space" is definitely Not Right.

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