Re: Oracle date type compat. functions: next_day, last_day, - Mailing list pgsql-patches

Pavel Stehule wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Neil Conway wrote:
>
>
>>Pavel Stehule wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/add_months.htm
>>>http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/last_day.htm
>>>http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/next_day.htm
>>>http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/months_between.htm
>>
>>Are these functions useful enough to be provided as builtins?
>>add_months(), for example, seems to be a less general version of 'date'
>>+ 'interval'.

Why not a pgFoundry project called Oracle-Compat or something? There
are plenty of functions etc... that can be included in the package as a
whole.

Once it is large enough, push it to contrib or vie for core support.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake
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