Re: numeric_to_number() function skipping some digits

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: "Jeevan Chalke" <jeevan(dot)chalke(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "daveg" <daveg(at)sonic(dot)net>, "Brendan Jurd" <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: numeric_to_number() function skipping some digits
Date: 2009-09-30 23:27:44
Message-ID: 9272.1254353264@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
> daveg <daveg(at)sonic(dot)net> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:27:19AM +0530, Jeevan Chalke wrote:
>>> It seems that Oracle reads formatting string from right-to-left.

>> It seems worse to to give a wrong answer silently then to throw an
>> error. What we do now seems sort of MySqlish.

> I agree with David on that.

So who is volunteering to do the presumably rather major rewrite
involved?

regards, tom lane

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