| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: TRUNC vs. TRUNCATE |
| Date: | 2005-11-28 22:45:03 |
| Message-ID: | 200511282245.jASMj3K24883@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I notice we added CEILING() as an alias to CEIL() for compatibility. We
> also have POWER() for POW().
>
> I notice that MySQL uses TRUNCATE() and we only have TRUNC(). Is
> TRUNCATE actually spec compliant? Should we add TRUNCATE anyway for
I don't see either in the SQL99 standard.
> consistency and compatibility?
No, if we did that we would be carrying around a ton of stuff.
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