Re: [HACKERS] string function

> 1) strftime() allows arbitrary formatting of date/time strings.
> Certainly useful, though one can easily format a string that is no
> longer recognizable to Postgres as a date which is one reason why I
> didn't code it up previously. Perhaps we should focus on an
> Oracle-compatible routine for this; I think it uses tochar() to do
> formatting. Someone recently volunteered to send in code which could
> be used for this, but I haven't seen the code yet :(

If I good understand you, you don't reject strftime idea. I try it..

> 2) strcat() concatenates two strings? There is a full set of functions
> which do this, and they are used to support the SQL92 concatenation
> operator "||".

 :-)) yes '||' is good. I said it bad. I think exapmle inetcat() (I
programming this for my project):

select inetcat('160.217.1.0/24', 50);
     inetcat
------------
160.217.1.50

In my prev. letter I said it generally. (I'am finding a more function
in PSQL.. and I can try write it.).

                        Zakkr