Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > On 2022-12-08 17:57:09 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> Given that this additional experimentation didn't find any holes >> in the API design, I think this is pretty much ready to go.
> One interesting area is timestamp / datetime related code. There's been some > past efforts in the area, mostly in 5bc450629b3. See the RETURN_ERROR macro in > formatting.c. > This is not directly about type input functions, but it looks to me that the > functionality in the patchset should work. Yeah, I was planning to take a look at that before walking away from this stuff. (I'm sure not volunteering to convert ALL the input functions, but I'll do the datetime code.) You're right that formatting.c is doing stuff that's not exactly an input function, but I don't see why we can't apply the same API concepts to it. regards, tom lane