On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> writes: >> Is this really all that hard? I'm thinking it could be implemented by >> using the real C sprintf underneath, passing one % specifier and its >> corresponding parameter at a time, coerced to whatever the conversion >> specifier specifies. > > The only disadvantage I can see of that is that it would lose precision > for NUMERIC. I'd really like to be able to write "%300.100f" and have it > Do The Right Thing with a 300-digit numeric input.
that could be simply worked around by formatting the numeric in sql and passing it to printf as %s. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
