On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 04:33:10PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Tony Marston" <tony@marston-home.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > I would like the option to use CONCAT(field1, ' ', field2) instead of the
> > vertical bar syntax (field1 || ' ' || field2) as this is also available in
> > other popular databases (MySQL, ORACLE).
>
> || is the SQL standard, CONCAT() is not. But feel free to write your
> own functions:
>
> create function concat(text,text) returns text as
> 'select $1 || $2' language sql strict immutable;
> create function concat(text,text,text) returns text as
> 'select $1 || $2 || $3' language sql strict immutable;
> ... repeat up to whatever number of parameters seems needed ...
And you might want to make it a project at http://pgfoundry.org so
others can make use of it. You might also want to define it as accepting
an array; I think that would allow you to accept any number of
parameters.
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