Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, "Pg Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types
Date: 2009-09-11 14:30:42
Message-ID: 20101.1252679442@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
> I think the main benefit of a sprintf type function for PostgreSQL is
> in the formatting (setting length, scale, alignment), not in making
> concatenation more pretty.

Exactly, which is why I'm so distressed that this proposal not only
hasn't got that, but is designed so that it's impossible to add it
later.

regards, tom lane

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