Re: pgsql function for roman2decimal?
Erik Brandsberg <erik@heimdalldata.com>
From: Erik Brandsberg <erik@heimdalldata.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: F Bax <fbax.ca@gmail.com>, pgsql-sql@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2020-06-27T21:28:51Z
Lists: pgsql-sql
If the core code already does one direction (I didn't know this) then I would agree. It seems that both would make sense to be in a separate module, due to the rarity of use, possibly just as an "exotic function" module, which would have a lower barrier of entry to adding code to. On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 5:24 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 05:14:27PM -0400, Erik Brandsberg wrote: > > This really feels like something that should be part of a module and not > the > > core code. > > Well, we already do the numeric to Roman conversion, so doing the > reverse seems to make sense: > > SELECT to_char(335, 'RN'); > to_char > ----------------- > CCCXXXV > > -- > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> https://momjian.us > EnterpriseDB https://enterprisedb.com > > The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness, Bruce Lee > > -- *Erik Brandsberg* erik@heimdalldata.com www.heimdalldata.com +1 (866) 433-2824 x 700 [image: AWS Competency Program] <https://aws.amazon.com/partners/find/partnerdetails/?n=Heimdall%20Data&id=001E000001d9pndIAA>