Dear Bruce,
I am not familiar with the process of applying patches. I am attaching the
source-code for the decode function we have developed for PostgreSQL. Can
you please do the needful, or redirect me to the appropriate person.
Thanks a lot,
warm regards,
Archana Bharatee
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 10:33 PM
To: Archana Bharatee
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] decode()
Archana Bharatee wrote:
> We have developed a 'C' function to provide Oracle decode() functionality.
> we have developed a C function DECODE which accepts an SQL Query and
> replaces occurence of decode with case-when-then-else-end and returns the
> query. There is no limitation of fixed number of parameters. This needs
to
> be added to PostgreSQL library. How do we do this?
Send the patch to the patches list. A context diff against against 7.2
or CVS is just fine.
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