From: | Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Is this a bug ? |
Date: | 2019-10-23 16:27:12 |
Message-ID: | d4f9ad09-0c8e-ced6-792d-1ffcff00e569@gmail.com |
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On 10/23/19 11:20 AM, Geoff Winkless wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 at 17:09, Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> As much as I hate to say it, MSFT was right to ignore this bug in the standard.
> Standards are standards for a reason. It is almost never correct to
> deliberately ignore them. If you don't like them, then revise the
> standard.
>
> Historically Microsoft ignored standards either because they
> misunderstood them or because they wanted to lock in their customers,
> not for any reasons of altruism.
>
> For what it's worth, I can see a value to having
>
> SELECT 'this is quite a long string'
> 'which I've joined together '
> 'across multiple lines';
>
> although the advantage of it vs using a concat operator is slim.
There is no advantage to using it vs using a concat operator, and all
disadvantage.
--
Angular momentum makes the world go 'round.
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