2010/8/24 Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takah...@gmail.com>: > I applied the attached patch to HEAD. concat(), concat_ws(), left(), > right(), and reverse() are in it, but format() and sprintf() are not. > It's my understanding that we don't have consensus about the best syntax > for the formatting function. We can forget about RAISE. C-like printf > syntax is the next candidate, but we should consider about other ones > restarting with a clean slate. >
Thank you very much C-like printf function is the most worse candidate - I don't like to repeat discussion again - this function is designed for totally different environment than SQL. I am sure, so we don't need a function with complex formatting - maintaining "to_char" is good example. Regards Pavel Stehule > Anyway, the newly added functions are useful for developers especially > migrated from other database products. Thank you. > > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> 2010/8/23 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>: >>> You should leave RAISE alone and just think about printf. >> >> ok - then we don't need modify proposed patch. "Format" function is >> enough for PL/pgSQL and other PL languages has own mutation of this >> functions. There are not barrier for implementation as custom >> function, so we can hold this function most simple. > > -- > Itagaki Takahiro > -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
