On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 at 13:43, Aleksander Alekseev <aleksan...@timescale.com> wrote: > > Adding extra arguments for something the user can implement > (him/her)self doesn't seem to be a great idea. With this approach we > may end up with hundreds of arguments one day. >
I don't see how a couple of extra arguments will expand to hundreds. > =# select case when sign(x) > 0 then '' else '-' end || to_hex(abs(x)) > from ( values (123), (-123) ) as s(x); > Which is broken for INT_MIN: select case when sign(x) > 0 then '' else '-' end || to_hex(abs(x)) from ( values (-2147483648) ) as s(x); ERROR: integer out of range Part of the reason for implementing this in core would be to save users from such easy-to-overlook bugs. Regards, Dean
