> If incorporating into main tree, don't forget that TO_CHAR()
> must also be capable to handle NUMERIC/DECIMAL/INTEGER with a
> rich set of fomatting styles. Actually I'm in doubt if you
> both are a little too much focusing on DATE/TIME.
> This means that there could be different input arguments
> (type and number!) to TO_CHAR().
Not a problem. In some cases, we are only an alias away from having it
(e.g. to_char(int) == text(int4)). Not sure about *all* of the others,
but the ugliest will be the to_char(datetime) and to_date(text,format)
stuff, so that is a good place to start.
- Thomas
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Thomas Lockhart lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California
