Re: [HACKERS] Re: missing function datetime()

> I can see two ways to do that: either add another function to pg_proc
> (five of them actually :-(), or hack the parser to translate a function
> name 'datetime' to 'timestamp'. Ugly as the second one sounds, it has
> a couple of advantages. First, it would provide an automatic upgrade
> path: future dumps of 7.0 databases would show the correct function
> name, at least for uses in rules. So we could hope to get rid of the
> compatibility hack someday. Second, the parser has special treatment
> for functions that are named the same as datatypes --- it knows they
> represent type coercions --- so a function named "datetime" won't really
> work quite the way it should for type resolution.

xlateSqlFunc() is already in gram.y; enjoy...

- Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
South Pasadena, California