| From: | daveg <daveg(at)sonic(dot)net> |
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| To: | Jeevan Chalke <jeevan(dot)chalke(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: numeric_to_number() function skipping some digits |
| Date: | 2009-09-23 08:13:12 |
| Message-ID: | 20090923081311.GE27248@sonic.net |
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On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:27:19AM +0530, Jeevan Chalke wrote:
>
> It seems that Oracle reads formatting string from right-to-left. Here are
> few results:
> ('number','format') ==> Oracle PG
> --------------------------------------------
> ('34,50','999,99') ==> 3450 340
> ('34,50','99,99') ==> 3450 3450
> ('34,50','99,999') ==> Invalid Number 3450
> ('34,50','999,999') ==> Invalid Number 340
It seems worse to to give a wrong answer silently then to throw an error.
What we do now seems sort of MySqlish.
-dg
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