Re: WIP: to_char, support for EEEE format

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: WIP: to_char, support for EEEE format
Date: 2009-08-09 07:40:00
Message-ID: 20090809074000.GE9155@alvh.no-ip.org
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Brendan Jurd escribió:

> Here's version 6 of the EEEE patch, now with an all-new implementation
> of (normalised) scientific notation in numeric.c, via the functions
> numeric_out_sci() and get_str_from_var_sci(). So EEEE should now be
> able to represent the full gamut of the numeric type.

I noticed an ugly pattern in NUMDesc_prepare calling a cleanup function
before every ereport(ERROR). I think it's cleaner to replace that with
a PG_TRY block; see attached.

I didn't go over the patch in much more detail. (But the
numeric_out_sci business got me thinking.)

--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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