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
>
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