Re: ascii to character conversion in postgres

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz>, Alex Sokoloff <alex_sokoloff(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ascii to character conversion in postgres
Date: 2000-09-18 17:48:24
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.21.0009181446370.17831-100000@thelab.hub.org
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On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> > sounds good to me ... chr() == char(), I take it? is there a reason for
> > having both vs just changing char() to chr() in the odbc stuff?
>
> We don't control the ODBC specification ...

okay, granted, but, other then ODBC, do we need the char() type? could it
not be an internal translation in the ODBC driver itself?

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