On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
> propsals:
> * "format" function - uses same formatting as PL/pgSQL RAISE statement
> * "sprintf" function
>
> Now I propose a compromise - "format" function with only three tags:
> %s .. some string
> %i .. SQL identifier
> %l .. string literal
These are just ideas:
* Use $n, as like as PREPARE command. It allows for us to swap arguments in any order. SELECT format('$2 before $1',
'aaa','bbb')
* Call to_char() functions for each placeholder. For example, format('=={YYYY-MM-DD}==', tm::timestamp) is equivalent
to '==' || to_char(tm, 'YYYY-MM-DD') || '==' '{}' prints the input with the default format.
New languages' libraries might be of some help. LLs, C#, etc.
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Itagaki Takahiro
