Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types
Date
Msg-id 6463.1252609235@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types
Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types
List pgsql-hackers
Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
> 2009/9/10 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> I think the point of it is that people are used to how sprintf works.
>> So it should work as nearly like sprintf as possible.

> How sprintf will be print bytea type, or char(n) type values?

Well, that's why it requires some actual thought and agreement on a
specification --- sprintf just crashes on type mismatches, but perhaps
the SQL version should be smarter.  You shouldn't expect that the
easiest thing to throw together is going to be considered the most
desirable solution.
        regards, tom lane


pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: "Kevin Grittner"
Date:
Subject: Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types
Next
From: Pavel Stehule
Date:
Subject: Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types