On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 21:35 +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote: > 2009/9/10 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>: > > Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I don't afraid about crashing. Simply I have not idea what sql > >> sprintf's behave in case: > > > >> SELECT sprintf('some %s', 10) > > > > That one I don't think is hard --- coerce the input type to text and > > print the string. > > > >> SELECT sprintf('some %d', 10::mycustomtype) > > > > For the formats that presume an integer or float input in C, perhaps > > we could coerce to numeric (failing if that fails) and then print > > appropriately. Or maybe int or float8 would be more appropriate > > conversion targets. > > it's possible - so format tags doesn't mean data type, but it means > "try to drow it as type" - etc invisible explicit casting.
what is the difference between these two ? > It could work, but it doesn't look like SQL. but we do it all over the place if another type is needed and CAST exists for getting it -- Hannu Krosing http://www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Scalability and Availability Services, Consulting and Training -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers