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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types
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Msg-id 20101.1252679442@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types  ("Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>)
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"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
> I think the main benefit of a sprintf type function for PostgreSQL is
> in the formatting (setting length, scale, alignment), not in making
> concatenation more pretty.

Exactly, which is why I'm so distressed that this proposal not only
hasn't got that, but is designed so that it's impossible to add it
later.
        regards, tom lane


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