Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> alvherre=# select text_format('% was % at % and said % % times', 'Pavel'::text, 'here'::unknown, now(),
row('a','b','c'),'{42}'::int[]);
 
>                                  text_format                                 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Pavel was here at 2009-09-10 13:12:09.054653-04 and said (a,b,c) {42} times
> (1 fila)

Is that what's being proposed?  That pretty much sucks --- it's just
another way of concatenating some strings.  I thought the idea was to
provide the same power as sprintf, eg field width controls, numeric
formatting options, etc.
        regards, tom lane