Re: Numeric casts in locale en_GB on FreeBSD 4.7

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Andrew Grillet wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am unable to cast a string to float, any way I try.
>
> This is FreeBSD Stable, with Postgresql 7.3.4.
>
> Most (probably) legit methods produce either a message to the effect
> that ' ##.##' is an illegal format or ' ' (ie a single space) is an
> illegal format.

What statements were you trying exactly?