Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types
Date: 2009-09-10 18:01:49
Message-ID: 162867790909101101l34e7b9a3la5f827569a5c7ddb@mail.gmail.com
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2009/9/10 David E. Wheeler <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>:
> On Sep 10, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Is that what's being proposed?
>
> I think that's what currently works, given the limitations of arrays
> (variadic arguments) to a single data type.
>
>> That pretty much sucks --- it's just
>> another way of concatenating some strings.  I thought the idea was to
>> provide the same power as sprintf, eg field width controls, numeric
>> formatting options, etc.
>
> That would be the goal, yes.

no - we have to_char function, why we need different formatting system?

Pavel

>
> Best,
>
> David
>

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