The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
>> 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?
Now that I look, it seems ODBC specifies the function as "char()",
which means contrib/odbc is wrong on that score too :-(
New proposal: forget ichar(), give the function two entries chr() and
char().
regards, tom lane