diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/cash.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/cash.c
index 7b1a00e9f272ac74ce9bd1ba0b5080981f9de227..bec369d0fb46f15af30955a5d644de2d57ec6f60 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/cash.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/cash.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
  * workings can be found in the book "Software Solutions in C" by
  * Dale Schumacher, Academic Press, ISBN: 0-12-632360-7.
  *
- * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/cash.c,v 1.17 1997/10/03 13:10:06 thomas Exp $
+ * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/cash.c,v 1.18 1997/10/25 05:11:06 thomas Exp $
  */
 
 #include <stdio.h>
@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ cash_in(const char *str)
 				csymbol;
 
 #ifdef USE_LOCALE
+#ifdef CASHDEBUG
+	setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
+	lconvert = localeconv();
+#endif
 	if (lconvert == NULL)
 		lconvert = localeconv();
 
@@ -85,6 +89,11 @@ cash_in(const char *str)
 	nsymbol = '-';
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CASHDEBUG
+printf( "cashin- precision %d; decimal %c; thousands %c; currency %c; positive %c; negative %c\n",
+ fpoint, dsymbol, ssymbol, csymbol, psymbol, nsymbol);
+#endif
+
 	/* we need to add all sorts of checking here.  For now just */
 	/* strip all leading whitespace and any leading dollar sign */
 	while (isspace(*s) || *s == csymbol)