Re: [HACKERS] Re: TO_CHAR()

> > discussion join you (Thomas) and me only, but others probably needn't
> > TO_CHAR, TO_NUMBER, TO_DATE) ..?
>
> People have requested to_char(), or at least inquired about it, though
> of course there are always ways to work around not having it. After
> all, it *is* non-standard ;) But we already have some Oracle
> compatibility functions, and a few more won't hurt.
>
> There are two possibilities:
>
> 1) we incorporate it into the main tree
> 2) we distribute it as a contrib package

If incorporating into main tree, don't forget that TO_CHAR()
must also be capable to handle NUMERIC/DECIMAL/INTEGER with a
rich set of fomatting styles. Actually I'm in doubt if you
both are a little too much focusing on DATE/TIME.

This means that there could be different input arguments
(type and number!) to TO_CHAR().

Jan

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