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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: 2010-10-15T11:36:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
> And the reply is - we have function to_char. I don't see any reason
> why we have to have two independent formatting systems.

The formats for literal and identifier can be replaced to quote_nullable() and
quote_ident(), too. Features to write simple queries are constantly in demand.

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Itagaki Takahiro