2010/10/15 Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takah...@gmail.com>: > 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?".
And the reply is - we have function to_char. I don't see any reason why we have to have two independent formatting systems. Pavel > > -- > 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
