| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Henshall, Stuart - WCP" <SHenshall(at)westcountrypublications(dot)co(dot)uk>, "'pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: RAISE concatination/variables in plpgsql |
| Date: | 2001-05-08 00:28:58 |
| Message-ID: | 200105080028.f480Swi15885@candle.pha.pa.us |
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OK, SGML updated.
> I wrote:
> >> Probably. And 'format' is even more misleading, since it implies that
> >> you write a printf-like format string, which you do not. The output is
> >> just the concatenation of the literal and the variable values.
>
> Ugh. Should've read the code before pontificating ;-). The code makes
> clear what is quite unclear in the docs:
> /*
> * Occurences of a single % are replaced by the next arguments
> * external representation. Double %'s are left as is so elog()
> * will also don't touch them.
> */
> So "format" is appropriate, but the next sentence could use some
> improvement.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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