On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:27:19AM +0530, Jeevan Chalke wrote:
>
> It seems that Oracle reads formatting string from right-to-left. Here are
> few results:
> ('number','format') ==> Oracle PG
> --------------------------------------------
> ('34,50','999,99') ==> 3450 340
> ('34,50','99,99') ==> 3450 3450
> ('34,50','99,999') ==> Invalid Number 3450
> ('34,50','999,999') ==> Invalid Number 340
It seems worse to to give a wrong answer silently then to throw an error.
What we do now seems sort of MySqlish.
-dg
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