Re: CONCAT function

In the last exciting episode, newsy(at)lewczuk(dot)com ("Marek Lewczuk") wrote:
>> You want to use the || operator, e.g. 'hello' || ' ' || 'world'
>
> I know that, but in my application (which is working on MySQL now) I
> have many querys which use CONCAT function, so I need to implement this
> function is PG - there is no possibility to replace (in short time) all
> of my querys.

Well, then you might implement "CONCAT" in plpgsql.

It will presumably take two values (possibly text, possibly generic),
use ||, inside the function, to catenate them, and then return a text
value.

That should be quite straightforward.
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