Re: WIP: to_char, support for EEEE format

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(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: 2009-08-10 17:42:01
Message-ID: 20090810174201.GD4796@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane escribió:

> Also, I'm wondering what should happen with
>
> regression=# select to_char(0.000485, '99.99EEEE');
> to_char
> -----------
> 4.85e-04
> (1 row)
>
> Doesn't seem quite right. Should we throw error if the number of 9's
> before the decimal point isn't 1?

No, see
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4A68FAE4.50206@timbira.com

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