Pavel Stehule escribió: > 2009/9/9 Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com>: > > Pavel Stehule escribió: > > > >> we are able to write sprintf(text, variadic "any") returns text, but only > >> in C > > > > Hmm, should we provide that function in core? > > We should it, but I prefer some pgfoundry or contrib package. sprintf > is really far to SQL. What more, we knows types, so some format tags > are useless. Using original sprintf function is possible, but needs > lot of code, because you need to transform PostgreSQL types to C > types, and we have not any helping function for this task. > > Some similar to plpgsql's RAISE statement is some +/- 20 rows
I already published a pseudo-sprintf function in the wiki here: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Sprintf I'm looking for something better, not just the same hacks. I don't see any good reason that the function needs to be far from core. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
