Re: [PATCH] Add function to_oct - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [PATCH] Add function to_oct
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Msg-id c1a0e94b-98b5-6162-cd4d-faa5f87c3de2@eisentraut.org
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Add function to_oct  (Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>)
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On 22.08.23 16:26, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> I don't understand the reason for this handling of negative values.  I would
>> expect that, say, to_hex(-1234) would return '-' || to_hex(1234).
> For this patch set, I was trying to retain the current behavior, which is
> to return the two's complement representation.  I'm open to changing this
> if there's agreement on what the output should be.

Ah, if there is existing behavior then we should probably keep it.



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