Re: WIP: to_char, support for EEEE format - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: WIP: to_char, support for EEEE format
Date
Msg-id 2112.1249916442@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: WIP: to_char, support for EEEE format  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: WIP: to_char, support for EEEE format  (Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> Got you thinking about what?  I'd welcome any comments you have.

> I wondered if it should just return char *.  If we want to have this
> functionality as its own fmgr-blessed function, shouldn't it return
> text instead of cstring?

If we expose it at fmgr level it should definitely not return cstring.
However, I wasn't foreseeing doing that --- does the submitted patch
expose it?
        regards, tom lane


pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: Re: [PATCH] "could not reattach to shared memory" on Windows
Next
From: Dave Page
Date:
Subject: Re: [PATCH] "could not reattach to shared memory" on Windows