Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Pavel Stehule
Subject Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types
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Msg-id 162867790909101101l34e7b9a3la5f827569a5c7ddb@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>)
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2009/9/10 David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>:
> 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.

no - we have to_char function, why we need different formatting system?

Pavel

>
> Best,
>
> David
>


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