On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> > If I good understand you, you don't reject strftime idea. I try it..
>
> But I was trying to nudge you to look at a slightly different idea
> which would be compatible with Oracle, for no particularly good reason
> other than that would help some folks when they try to port apps over
> to Postgres.
My first idea was write to PSQL strftime full compatible with 'C'
strftime(). Now I see Oracle documentation for TO_CHAR(), ..hmm it is not
easy, it is very specific (unique) function, but I agree - your idea
(compatible with Oracle) is better :-)). I try to_char()..
Think for your time Thomas.
Zakkr
