Re: Why mention to Oracle ?

From: Marcos Pegoraro <marcos(at)f10(dot)com(dot)br>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(at)vondra(dot)me>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why mention to Oracle ?
Date: 2024-09-20 17:31:47
Message-ID: CAB-JLwau7BVCqDRvp56LD=KWiuQWPHatHOjXPLLszaUaRhdXJQ@mail.gmail.com
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Em sex., 20 de set. de 2024 às 12:53, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> escreveu:

> As far as the mentions in "Data Type Formatting Functions" go, those
> are there because those functions are not in the SQL standard; we
> stole the API definitions for them from Oracle, lock stock and barrel.
> (Except for the discrepancies that are called out by referencing what
> Oracle does differently.) A number of the other references probably
> have similar origins.
>

All the time we see somebody adding a new function to Postgres core that
exists in Python or GO or MySQL, but none of them are mentioned on DOCS.

I did never use Oracle but I'm almost sure on Oracle DOCS there are no
mentions of Postgres, right ? Why do we need to mention it ?

Regards
Marcos

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