Pavel Stehule escribió:
> 2009/9/9 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>:
> > Pavel Stehule escribió:
> >
> >> we are able to write sprintf(text, variadic "any") returns text, but only in C
> >
> > Hmm, should we provide that function in core?
>
> We should it, but I prefer some pgfoundry or contrib package. sprintf
> is really far to SQL. What more, we knows types, so some format tags
> are useless. Using original sprintf function is possible, but needs
> lot of code, because you need to transform PostgreSQL types to C
> types, and we have not any helping function for this task.
>
> Some similar to plpgsql's RAISE statement is some +/- 20 rows
I already published a pseudo-sprintf function in the wiki here:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Sprintf I'm looking for something
better, not just the same hacks.
I don't see any good reason that the function needs to be far from core.
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