2009/9/10 David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>:
> On Sep 10, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Is that what's being proposed?
>
> I think that's what currently works, given the limitations of arrays
> (variadic arguments) to a single data type.
>
>> 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.
>
> That would be the goal, yes.
no - we have to_char function, why we need different formatting system?
Pavel
>
> Best,
>
> David
>