Re: string function - "format" function proposal

2010/9/6 Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> 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.
>

I think so tag that quotes all without numbers can be very useful, but
it isn't too much important for me. I can live without them.

Regards

Pavel

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