Hello
I am sending a updated version.
changes:
* tag %v removed from format function,
* proprietary tags %lq a iq removed from sprintf
* code cleaned
patch divided to two parts - format function and stringfunc (contains
sprintf function and substitute function)
Regards
Pavel Stehule
2010/9/6 Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>:
> 2010/9/6 Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> So? You'd need to quote the values anyway, in general. If you want
>>> something that will be valid SQL you'd better include the functionality
>>> of quote_literal() in it.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure that it's a good idea to have any type-specific special
>>> cases.
>>
>> As I remember, the original motivation of %v formatter is
>> some DBMSes don't like quoted numeric literals. However,
>> Postgres accepts quoted numerics, and we're developing Postgres.
>>
>> So, our consensus would be %v formatter should be removed
>> completely from the format function.
>>
>
> I think so tag that quotes all without numbers can be very useful, but
> it isn't too much important for me. I can live without them.
>
> Regards
>
> Pavel
>
>> --
>> Itagaki Takahiro
>>
>
