Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types
Date
Msg-id 20897.1252682962@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> I like the idea of making concatenation more pretty, quite frankly.
> No one has really responded to Pavel's contention that this is what
> to_char() is for.

[ shrug... ]  I regard this as a prettier replacement for to_char.
That thing has got nothing whatsoever to recommend it, other than being
bug-compatible with Oracle.
        regards, tom lane


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