Re: ascii to character conversion in postgres

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?

regards, tom lane