Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types
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In response to Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sep 10, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Is that what's being proposed?

I think that's what currently works, given the limitations of arrays  
(variadic arguments) to a single data type.

> That pretty much sucks --- it's just
> another way of concatenating some strings.  I thought the idea was to
> provide the same power as sprintf, eg field width controls, numeric
> formatting options, etc.

That would be the goal, yes.

Best,

David


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