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Tim Armstrong updated IMPALA-9600:
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    Component/s: Backend

> Support Format Modifiers for String Conversion
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>                 Key: IMPALA-9600
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-9600
>             Project: IMPALA
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Backend
>            Reporter: Shant Hovsepian
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: built-in-function, ramp-up
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> A lack of support for "format modifiers" or "template patterns" while 
> converting numeric and potentially other types to strings is a hinderance on 
> usability.
> There may not be a way to do this as part of the SQL Standard, most database 
> have a common extension to type conversion functions such as CONVERT() CAST() 
> or TO_CHAR() that take a "printf" style format string as an argument. Locale 
> awareness may have to be taken into consideration.
> For example Postgresql uses this syntax to add a thousand separator:
> {{to_char(148.5, '999D999')}}



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