Re: pgsql: Add new SQL function, format(text).

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> On Sunday 21 November 2010 04:34:37 Robert Haas wrote:
>> Add new SQL function, format(text).
>>
>> Currently, three conversion format specifiers are supported: %s for a
>> string, %L for an SQL literal, and %I for an SQL identifier.  The latter
>> two are deliberately designed not to overlap with what sprintf() already
>> supports, in case we want to add more of sprintf()'s functionality here
>> later.
>>
>> Patch by Pavel Stehule, heavily revised by me.  Reviewed by Jeff Janes
>> and, in earlier versions, by Itagaki Takahiro and Tom Lane.
> A tiny question: Why does that commit remove quote_ident() test cases?

Because my git-fu is distinctly second rate. Will fix.

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