| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Guy Rouillier <guyr-ml1(at)burntmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [GENERAL] FM format modifier does not remove leading zero from year |
| Date: | 2010-02-08 22:44:13 |
| Message-ID: | 201002082244.o18MiDx19877@momjian.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > What's the point of not following Oracle here, since this is solely an
> > Oracle compatibility function?
>
> Changing FM's behavior like that will break approximately every user
> of to_char() ...
I would love to know why we are finding out about this incompatibility
only in 2010, years after we implemented this. Is no one porting
multi-specification "FM" to_char() strings from Oracle to PostgreSQL?
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