Re: patch (for 9.1) string functions

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
Subject: Re: patch (for 9.1) string functions
Date: 2010-08-23 14:14:38
Message-ID: 20168.1282572878@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> ... The formating
> enhancing should be shared with RAISE NOTICE command.

I remain of the opinion that RAISE's approach to formatting is
completely broken and inextensible, and that any attempt to be somehow
compatible with it is going to lead to an unusably broken design.
You should leave RAISE alone and just think about printf.

regards, tom lane

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