Re: [HACKERS] money or dollar type

> I think that PostgreSQL money type should be very useful if we could
> remove the dollar sign. We can't use it with Lira/Peseta/Mark etc.
> In europe now we have Euro. If we remove the $ it will be useful
> otherwise we have to rename it to 'dollar'. ;-)

Have you tried compiling with "USE_LOCALE" turned on and with the right
setting for LC_xxx? The code is supposed to use local conventions, but I
don't know if it works in the way you want. I agree that it should...

> PS: Is there a reason to left justify it ?

That is just an artifact of the column formatting; all columns are left
justified in psql afaik.

                  - Tom