From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz>, Alex Sokoloff <alex_sokoloff(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: ascii to character conversion in postgres |
Date: | 2000-09-18 16:36:32 |
Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.21.0009181336010.17831-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> >> I vote for just renaming it to chr(). Any objections?
>
> > first thing off the top of my head ... was there a reason why it was added
> > to contrib/odbc? ignoring the "oracle documentation", is it something
> > that is/was needed for ODBC?
>
> Now that I look, it seems ODBC specifies the function as "char()",
> which means contrib/odbc is wrong on that score too :-(
>
> New proposal: forget ichar(), give the function two entries chr() and
> char().
sounds good to me ... chr() == char(), I take it? is there a reason for
having both vs just changing char() to chr() in the odbc stuff?
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