Re: MySQL Compatibility WAS: 8.5 release timetable, again - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: MySQL Compatibility WAS: 8.5 release timetable, again
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Msg-id 200908262224.n7QMOTL14103@momjian.us
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In response to Re: MySQL Compatibility WAS: 8.5 release timetable, again  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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Greg Stark wrote:
> > PostgreSQL and MySQL do not use the same concatenation funtions (D6 only, fixed in D7)
> 
> Personally I don't see a problem with us adding this to Postgres now
> that we have variadic functions. I'm not sure why others are so
> dead-set against it; it seems a lot less burdensome than some of the
> Oracle compatibility stuff we have.

The Oracle functions are there to add functionality that can't be easily
performed using ANSI syntax;  this is not true of concact() and ||.

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