On 2/15/07, Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> I don't think Oracle even has that. But personally I'd like to see
> >> errors for invalid pattern combinations.
>
> > What do we do with other invalid pattern combinations in to_char() now?
>
> Mostly, we return bogus results :-(. The formatting.c code in general
> doesn't seem very robust.
Yep, seems every release I am in there cleaning up some mistake repeated
multiple times in the code. It needs a good cleaning.
I'm happy to volunteer to do something about the invalid field
combinations, but I suspect an overhaul of formatting.c is more than I
can currently chew. I figure it would be a bit misguided of me to put
together a patch for invalid field combinations if somebody is about
to do a rewrite of much of the code?
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