Re: numeric_to_number() function skipping some digits

On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 19:08 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: 
> > "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?
>  
> 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
> 
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