On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> wrote: > then maybe %ls or %is - like "literal string" or "ident string".
Yeah, good idea! > I don't think so merging sprintf and format can be good. Sprintf is > too complex - so long years users don't know specification well and > creating some like sprintf function can be messy for users. I like to > see accurate sprintf function in contrib - and some else in core. I agree that full-spec sprintf is too complex, but precision and zero-full for numeric types are commonly used. I think someone will ask us "Why don't have numeric formats though we have %s?". -- Itagaki Takahiro -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers