Re: [PATCH] Add function to_oct

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>, John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Kirk Wolak <wolakk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Eric Radman <ericshane(at)eradman(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add function to_oct
Date: 2023-08-22 14:57:02
Message-ID: c1a0e94b-98b5-6162-cd4d-faa5f87c3de2@eisentraut.org
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On 22.08.23 16:26, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> I don't understand the reason for this handling of negative values. I would
>> expect that, say, to_hex(-1234) would return '-' || to_hex(1234).
> For this patch set, I was trying to retain the current behavior, which is
> to return the two's complement representation. I'm open to changing this
> if there's agreement on what the output should be.

Ah, if there is existing behavior then we should probably keep it.

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