(Please CC me the reply, since I'm not subscribed to the list.)
Pavel Stehule wrote:
2013/9/17 rudolf Dean Rasheed wrote:
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This applies even if the "-" flag is also specified. So the last example is meant to illustrate that 2 minuses don't make a plus here. That's very unusual, IMO. This behavior follows some SQL standard or is it an invention of PostgreSQL? this is postgresql feature - standard doesn't support any similar functionality - and printf is some like developer Esperanto. We significantly reduced complexity of printf function and we modified basic rules for usage in SQL, but some very typical rules - like format placeholders, we share - we don't introduce own rules there.
Yes, as I already wrote to Dean (and forgot to cc the list), you are right, the behavior is correct. Thanks for the explanation!
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