2013/1/28 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>: > 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).
ok - I have no problem with it - after some thinking - just remove one check. Regards Pavel > > 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
