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

On Sep 10, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

>> no - we have to_char function, why we need different formatting  
>> system?
>
> Why do we need this at all, when we have the concatenation operator?
> I think the point of it is that people are used to how sprintf works.
> So it should work as nearly like sprintf as possible.

+1

David