| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | Jean-Michel Pouré <jm(at)poure(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: MySQL Compatibility WAS: 8.5 release timetable, again |
| Date: | 2009-08-26 22:24:29 |
| Message-ID: | 200908262224.n7QMOTL14103@momjian.us |
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Greg Stark wrote:
> > PostgreSQL and MySQL do not use the same concatenation funtions (D6 only, fixed in D7)
>
> Personally I don't see a problem with us adding this to Postgres now
> that we have variadic functions. I'm not sure why others are so
> dead-set against it; it seems a lot less burdensome than some of the
> Oracle compatibility stuff we have.
The Oracle functions are there to add functionality that can't be easily
performed using ANSI syntax; this is not true of concact() and ||.
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