Re: ascii to character conversion in postgres

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> >> Postgres has an 'ascii' function that converts
> >> characters to ascii, values, but it appears to be a
> >> one way street. I can't find a way to convert ascii
> >> values to characters, like 'chr' in Oracle. Anyone
> >> know how to do this? 
> 
> ichar().  Since that's part of the "oracle_compatibility" file,
> I'd assumed the function name spelling was the same as Oracle's.
> Not so?
Not documented (from oracle_compat.c) in PG documentation:
btrim()ascii()ichar()repeat()
and about ichar() is nothing in Oracle documentation, it's knows chr() 
only...

Directly rename it, or add "alias" entry to the pg_proc? 

Or ignore? :-)
            Karel