On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 09:17:07AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Pavel Stehule wrote:
> >>
> >>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.
Pavel created one (http://pgfoundry.org/projects/orafce/) and I'm the
one who encouraged him to take the stuff directly to -hackers :)
Cheers,
D
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