Re: jdbc locale settings - numeric
On 2/26/2015 9:44 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
In my (Java) program, I need to open a database (using jdbc),
and send it predefined update statements. They are generated
elsewhere, and I cannot change them.
Some of these predefined statements contain decimal numbers
enclosed in quotes using a "." for the decimal point.
This works all fine for those databases that have appropriate
default settings for "char to numeric" conversion.
Some other databases (on other servers/hosts), however, appear
to expect decimals as "3,1415" with a comma by default. They
use German locale.
I'm running my head against walls when trying to find out how
to tell the database (at connect time) to use decimal point,
not decimal comma.
E.g.:
setting property "CLIENT_LOCALE" to "en_US" had no effect,
setting property "DB_LOCALE" to "en_US" caused the connect to
fail with a message that GL_CTYPE and GL_COLLATE settings
were incompatible. (I've already googled the exact message,
but none of the hits were helpful. If I had the exact wording
at hand right now, I'd have posted it here)
For date-values and currency values, there are properties to
declare to the server which format is used, but I haven't yet
found a property for number format.
I assume there is no point in suggesting doing this the right way
with prepared statements.
:-)
So now we know that we can not stop hitting ourselves in the head
with a hammer and we just need to minimize how much it hurt.
:-)
The ability to set such parameters is database specific
and you did not specify which database, so difficult to say
whether there is something you can set.
But I will suggest something more extreme to give you back
control: use an intercepting pass-through JDBC driver and change
that SQL as needed.
Maybe:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/p6spy/
Arne
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