Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2020 17:31:41 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Erik Brandsberg <erik@heimdalldata.com>
Cc: F Bax <fbax.ca@gmail.com>, pgsql-sql@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: pgsql function for roman2decimal?
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On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 05:28:51PM -0400, Erik Brandsberg wrote:
> If the core code already does one direction (I didn't know this) then I would
> agree.  It seems that both would make sense to be in a separate module, due to
> the rarity of use, possibly just as an "exotic function" module, which would
> have a lower barrier of entry to adding code to.

Well, I don't think we would remove the numeric to Roman conversion
since it would break backward compatibility, and it isn't much code, so
going in the forward direction of adding a Roman to numeric conversion
would make sense in the core code.

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