"Brendan Jurd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To my mind, it would make a lot more sense (and make hacking the file > a lot easier) if the processing functions were split into to_char and > from_char variants. I'm not sure what, if any, advantage is gleaned > by having these functions combined.
Yeah, I never liked that approach either. I suppose the idea was to keep the to- and from- code for each format code close together, but it blurs what's going on to a much greater extent than that's worth. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly