Re: patch (for 9.1) string functions

Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>

To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Cc: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>

Date: 2010-08-23T14:41:31Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

2010/8/23 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
>> ... The formating
>> enhancing should be shared with RAISE NOTICE command.
>
> I remain of the opinion that RAISE's approach to formatting is
> completely broken and inextensible, and that any attempt to be somehow
> compatible with it is going to lead to an unusably broken design.
> You should leave RAISE alone and just think about printf.
>

ok - then we don't need modify proposed patch. "Format" function is
enough for PL/pgSQL and other PL languages has own mutation of this
functions. There are not barrier for implementation as custom
function, so we can hold this function most simple.

Regards

Pavel

>                        regards, tom lane
>