Re: numeric_to_number() function skipping some digits

"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
> daveg <daveg@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?
        regards, tom lane