Re: WIP: to_char, support for EEEE format

From: Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: WIP: to_char, support for EEEE format
Date: 2009-08-11 06:46:44
Message-ID: 37ed240d0908102346y5711345s42575bd146622986@mail.gmail.com
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2009/8/11 Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> It's nice. I am playing with it, and now I found some potential issue.
> The parser is maybe too tolerant:
>
> postgres=# select to_char(3.14323,'9.9(aaaaaEEEE');
>  to_char
> ----------
>  3.1e+00
> (1 row)
>

I guess we *could* add code to throw an error where the 9's aren't
placed immediately before the E's in the format pattern, but to be
honest I can't work up any enthusiasm about it.

Cheers,
BJ

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