Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > What's the point of not following Oracle here, since this is solely an
> > Oracle compatibility function?
> 
> Changing FM's behavior like that will break approximately every user
> of to_char() ...

I would love to know why we are finding out about this incompatibility
only in 2010, years after we implemented this.  Is no one porting
multi-specification "FM" to_char() strings from Oracle to PostgreSQL?

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