Re: Is this a bug ? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ron
Subject Re: Is this a bug ?
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Msg-id d4f9ad09-0c8e-ced6-792d-1ffcff00e569@gmail.com
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In response to Re: Is this a bug ?  (Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@geoff.dj>)
List pgsql-general
On 10/23/19 11:20 AM, Geoff Winkless wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 at 17:09, Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As much as I hate to say it, MSFT was right to ignore this bug in the standard.
> Standards are standards for a reason. It is almost never correct to
> deliberately ignore them. If you don't like them, then revise the
> standard.
>
> Historically Microsoft ignored standards either because they
> misunderstood them or because they wanted to lock in their customers,
> not for any reasons of altruism.
>
> For what it's worth, I can see a value to having
>
> SELECT 'this is quite a long string'
>                 'which I've joined together '
>                 'across multiple lines';
>
> although the advantage of it vs using a concat operator is slim.

There is no advantage to using it vs using a concat operator, and all 
disadvantage.

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