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: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(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 18:18:16
Message-ID: C19C559C-78BA-4065-80F9-D4B1858ADADD@kineticode.com
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On Sep 10, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

>> no - we have to_char function, why we need different formatting
>> system?
>
> Why do we need this at all, when we have the concatenation operator?
> I think the point of it is that people are used to how sprintf works.
> So it should work as nearly like sprintf as possible.

+1

David

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