| From: | Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> |
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| To: | Sándor Daku <daku(dot)sandor(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Bret Stern <bret_stern(at)machinemanagement(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Sort question - Fractions, Metric etc |
| Date: | 2021-08-14 17:23:46 |
| Message-ID: | bc0b146e-5050-34fc-94a0-9775f736c0ec@aklaver.com |
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On 8/14/21 10:19 AM, Sándor Daku wrote:
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> I'm not sure, but maybe a kind of cast function that cast everything
> into a reasonable common unit(Khm... millimeters) and sort on that? It
> seems relatively simple to pick up the value and unit from a string with
> a regexp. Admittedly the data would still be a mess.
I see the potential for another crash landing:) :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_failure
>
> Regards,
> Sándor
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Adrian Klaver
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