Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rash...@gmail.com> writes: > On 28 January 2013 20:40, Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2013/1/28 Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rash...@gmail.com>: >>> flags - not currently implemented. Pavel's second patch adds support >>> for the '-' flag for left justified string output. However, I think >>> this should support all datatypes (i.e., %I and %L as well as %s).
>> no - surely not - I% and L% is PostgreSQL extension and left or right >> alignment is has no sense for PostgreSQL identifiers and PostgreSQL >> literals. > Left/right alignment and padding in printf() apply to all types, after > the data value is converted to a string. Why shouldn't that same > principle apply to %I and %L? I agree with Dean --- it would be very strange for these features not to apply to all conversion specifiers (excepting %% of course, which isn't really a conversion specifier but an escaping hack). regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers