Re: strftime - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Mike Mascari
Subject Re: strftime
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Msg-id 3F45A052.3050302@mascari.com
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In response to strftime  ("Egor Shipovalov" <pgsql_list@eonline.ru>)
List pgsql-general
Egor Shipovalov wrote:

> I'm wondering how hard will it be to implement POSIX strftime function and
> what's the best way to go about it? I hooked up similar functions to MySQL
> in the past and all it took was little modification to example C code,
> compiling it as a shared library and issuing one SQL statement. What's the
> PostgreSQL's way to do it?

You can write wrappers for any C function:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/xfunc-c.html

But PostgreSQL may be able to already to what you want using TO_CHAR():

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/functions-formatting.html

Hope that helps,

Mike Mascari
mascarm@mascari.com



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