Re: Bug when retrieving money datatype.

On 11/29/2011 11:51 PM, Oliver Jowett wrote:
> On 30 November 2011 10:36, Thomas Kellerer<spam_eater@gmx.net>  wrote:
>
>> Bad value for type double : €100,00
>
> Looks like an internationalization problem - the code that handles
> parsing money values isn't expecting a euro sign, just a dollar sign.
> Is there a standard way to correctly interpret money values formatted
> by the server when the client's locale might be different to the
> server's?

I was planning to add the binary format support for money to the
jdbc driver when I had some free time. It will solve all parsing
problems related to locale and give nice speed boost at the same time.

The current way is a hack where the generic number parsing knows how to
ignore $ and (). Of course we should also fix the text format parsing.

In both cases I think the correct way is to handle the money as a
PGmoney type in jdbc driver.

Here is my mental list of what should be improved around the PGmoney:
- Use BigDecimal instead of double
- Support sending the text format in the server locale
- Proper conversion when requested with getBigDecimal, getDouble,
   getInt, getLong in the driver
- Making sure getString of money type will no longer return the $/€ or
   whatever currency the user might have
- add binary encoding support

-Mikko