| From: | Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: string function - "format" function proposal |
| Date: | 2010-09-06 14:51:34 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTi=d1QwFt6FO3fA-JqhRE9PM=_+5ZQfhP1h8Y0OY@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> So? You'd need to quote the values anyway, in general. If you want
> something that will be valid SQL you'd better include the functionality
> of quote_literal() in it.
>
> I'm not sure that it's a good idea to have any type-specific special
> cases.
As I remember, the original motivation of %v formatter is
some DBMSes don't like quoted numeric literals. However,
Postgres accepts quoted numerics, and we're developing Postgres.
So, our consensus would be %v formatter should be removed
completely from the format function.
--
Itagaki Takahiro
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