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Re: string function - "format" function proposal

Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>

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From: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-10-15T04:55:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
> then maybe %ls or %is - like "literal string" or "ident string".

Yeah, good idea!

> I don't think so merging sprintf and format can be good. Sprintf is
> too complex - so long years users don't know specification well and
> creating some like sprintf function can be messy for users. I like to
> see accurate sprintf function in contrib - and some else in core.

I agree that full-spec sprintf is too complex, but precision and
zero-full for numeric types are commonly used. I think someone
will ask us "Why don't have numeric formats though we have %s?".

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Itagaki Takahiro