(Please CC me the reply, since I'm not subscribed to the list.)

Pavel Stehule wrote:
2013/9/17 rudolf
    Dean Rasheed wrote:
[...]
        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!

Kind regards,

r.



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