Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Sep 10, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I thought the idea was to
>>> provide the same power as sprintf, eg field width controls, numeric
>>> formatting options, etc.
> no - we have to_char function, why we need different formatting system?
Why do we need this at all, when we have the concatenation operator?
I think the point of it is that people are used to how sprintf works.
So it should work as nearly like sprintf as possible.
regards, tom lane