2013/1/28 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> writes:
>> On 28 January 2013 20:40, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2013/1/28 Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>:
>>>> flags - not currently implemented. Pavel's second patch adds support
>>>> for the '-' flag for left justified string output. However, I think
>>>> this should support all datatypes (i.e., %I and %L as well as %s).
>
>>> no - surely not - I% and L% is PostgreSQL extension and left or right
>>> alignment is has no sense for PostgreSQL identifiers and PostgreSQL
>>> literals.
>
>> Left/right alignment and padding in printf() apply to all types, after
>> the data value is converted to a string. Why shouldn't that same
>> principle apply to %I and %L?
>
> I agree with Dean --- it would be very strange for these features not to
> apply to all conversion specifiers (excepting %% of course, which isn't
> really a conversion specifier but an escaping hack).
ok - I have no problem with it - after some thinking - just remove one check.
Regards
Pavel
>
> regards, tom lane