Re: unexpected character used as group separator by to_char

Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>

From: Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2021-03-09T21:32:20Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On 3/9/21 2:22 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Vincent Veyron <vv.lists@wanadoo.fr> writes:
>> Having a database with the proper lc_numeric setting for each country, and using to_char/to_number to manipulate numbers is much more appealing than writing my own parser in my front end. But this weird space is getting in my way.
> The point here is that 'G' and related format codes act as specified by
> your LC_MONETARY locale.  If you don't like the results, you need to use
> a different locale.
>
> (I suppose you could also use regexp_replace to convert random forms
> of whitespace to plain ASCII space.)
>
> 			regards, tom lane
>
>
I'm in David's camp on this one: there are plenty of currency format 
conversion libraries from which to choose.

rjs