Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types
Date: 2009-09-10 17:22:24
Message-ID: BE0F8D3D-78BF-455F-819A-50EE5C3CB4C7@kineticode.com
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On Sep 10, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Is that what's being proposed?

I think that's what currently works, given the limitations of arrays
(variadic arguments) to a single data type.

> That pretty much sucks --- it's just
> another way of concatenating some strings. I thought the idea was to
> provide the same power as sprintf, eg field width controls, numeric
> formatting options, etc.

That would be the goal, yes.

Best,

David

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