On 8/9/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Brendan Jurd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > To my mind, it would make a lot more sense (and make hacking the file > > a lot easier) if the processing functions were split into to_char and > > from_char variants. I'm not sure what, if any, advantage is gleaned > > by having these functions combined. > > Yeah, I never liked that approach either. I suppose the idea was to > keep the to- and from- code for each format code close together, but > it blurs what's going on to a much greater extent than that's worth.
Okay, I'll see what I can do. Incidentally, anybody know what DCH is supposed to stand for? Throughout the code DCH is used to refer to date/time formatting and NUM to numeric formatting. Just curious. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
