Re: ascii to character conversion in postgres

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz> writes:
> > Not documented (from oracle_compat.c) in PG documentation:
> > btrim()
> > ascii()
> > ichar()
> > repeat()
> > and about ichar() is nothing in Oracle documentation, it's knows chr()
> > only...
>
> Sounds to me like calling it ichar() was an error, then. Should be chr().
>
> > Directly rename it, or add "alias" entry to the pg_proc?
>
> The alias would only be useful to people who had been using it as
> "ichar()" --- which is not many people, since it's undocumented ;-)
> Furthermore, now that I look, it looks like ichar() was new in
> contrib/odbc in 7.0 and has only recently been moved into the main
> code.
>
> I vote for just renaming it to chr(). Any objections?

first thing off the top of my head ... was there a reason why it was added
to contrib/odbc? ignoring the "oracle documentation", is it something
that is/was needed for ODBC?

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