| From: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: string function - "format" function proposal |
| Date: | 2010-10-15 11:20:58 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTi=RWLJZAK4hNef+pL=zR_7hffeQCGrxpQX2HPkg@mail.gmail.com |
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2010/10/15 Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> then maybe %ls or %is - like "literal string" or "ident string".
>
> Yeah, good idea!
>
>> I don't think so merging sprintf and format can be good. Sprintf is
>> too complex - so long years users don't know specification well and
>> creating some like sprintf function can be messy for users. I like to
>> see accurate sprintf function in contrib - and some else in core.
>
> I agree that full-spec sprintf is too complex, but precision and
> zero-full for numeric types are commonly used. I think someone
> will ask us "Why don't have numeric formats though we have %s?".
And the reply is - we have function to_char. I don't see any reason
why we have to have two independent formatting systems.
Pavel
>
> --
> Itagaki Takahiro
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