Re: [PATCHES] to_char and Roman Numeral (RN) bug

On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 07:28:50PM -0700, Command Prompt, Inc. wrote:

> In documenting the to_char() function for transformation of numbers to
> text, I noticed that the "RN" template character sequence was displaying
> some unusual behavior; specifically, unless in fill mode (with the "FM"
> sequence), it would either return the result of the last query executed
> derived from a to_char() result, or what appears to be a garbage pointer
> if there was no such last query.

You are right it's bug. For the 'RM' in non-fillmode is to_char() quiet.
I will fix it for 7.2.

> I consider myself a competent programmer, but never having hacked on
> Postgres, I'm not 100% sure that this modification is totally correct

I check it and if it's good solution we use it.

Thanks!

Karel

PS. Bruce, please, can you apply my previous (31 Aug) patch with to_char()
stuff? I want fix this bug in really actual CVS code. Thanks.

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