On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 19:08 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote: > Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > "Kevin Grittner" <kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov> writes: > >> daveg <da...@sonic.net> wrote: > >>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:27:19AM +0530, Jeevan Chalke wrote: > >>>> It seems that Oracle reads formatting string from right-to-left. > > > >>> It seems worse to to give a wrong answer silently then to throw an > >>> error. What we do now seems sort of MySqlish. > > > >> I agree with David on that. > > > > So who is volunteering to do the presumably rather major rewrite > > involved? > > We don't typically identify an author before putting something on the > TODO list. > > That said, this one seems like it would be within my skill set. I > seem to have trouble finding tasks that are for which we can get > consensus, so I just might pick this one up if we achieve such > consensus on it. The biggest problem, should I take it on, would be > that I don't currently have access to an Oracle database, so someone > would have to supply me with accurate specs for how it should behave, > or point to unambiguous documentation.
Just download developer edition? > > -Kevin > -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering If the world pushes look it in the eye and GRR. Then push back harder. - Salamander -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
