Re: pgsql: Add new SQL function, format(text). - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: pgsql: Add new SQL function, format(text).
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In response to pgsql: Add new SQL function, format(text).  (Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>)
Responses Re: pgsql: Add new SQL function, format(text).  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Sunday 21 November 2010 04:34:37 Robert Haas wrote:
> Add new SQL function, format(text).
>
> Currently, three conversion format specifiers are supported: %s for a
> string, %L for an SQL literal, and %I for an SQL identifier.  The latter
> two are deliberately designed not to overlap with what sprintf() already
> supports, in case we want to add more of sprintf()'s functionality here
> later.
>
> Patch by Pavel Stehule, heavily revised by me.  Reviewed by Jeff Janes
> and, in earlier versions, by Itagaki Takahiro and Tom Lane.
A tiny question: Why does that commit remove quote_ident() test cases?

Andres

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