| From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Pavel Stehule <stehule(at)kix(dot)fsv(dot)cvut(dot)cz>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, kzak(at)redhat(dot)com, hsn(at)netmag(dot)cz |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle date type compat. functions: next_day, last_day, |
| Date: | 2005-06-02 16:37:38 |
| Message-ID: | 20050602163738.GC5635@fetter.org |
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On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 09:17:07AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Pavel Stehule wrote:
> >>
> >>Are these functions useful enough to be provided as builtins?
> >>add_months(), for example, seems to be a less general version of
> >>'date' + 'interval'.
>
> Why not a pgFoundry project called Oracle-Compat or something? There
> are plenty of functions etc... that can be included in the package
> as a whole.
>
> Once it is large enough, push it to contrib or vie for core support.
Pavel created one (http://pgfoundry.org/projects/orafce/) and I'm the
one who encouraged him to take the stuff directly to -hackers :)
Cheers,
D
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