| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Pavel Stehule <stehule(at)kix(dot)fsv(dot)cvut(dot)cz> |
| Cc: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, david(at)fetter(dot)org, kzak(at)redhat(dot)com, hsn(at)netmag(dot)cz |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle date type compat. functions: next_day, last_day, |
| Date: | 2005-06-02 16:17:07 |
| Message-ID: | 429F3103.2000404@commandprompt.com |
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Pavel Stehule wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Neil Conway wrote:
>
>
>>Pavel Stehule wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/add_months.htm
>>>http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/last_day.htm
>>>http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/next_day.htm
>>>http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/months_between.htm
>>
>>Are these functions useful enough to be provided as builtins?
>>add_months(), for example, seems to be a less general version of 'date'
>>+ 'interval'.
Why not a pgFoundry project called Oracle-Compat or something? There
are plenty of functions etc... that can be included in the package as a
whole.
Once it is large enough, push it to contrib or vie for core support.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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