Re: ascii to character conversion in postgres

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz> writes:
> >  Not documented (from oracle_compat.c) in PG documentation:
> >     btrim()
> >     ascii()
> >     ichar()
> >     repeat()
> >  and about ichar() is nothing in Oracle documentation, it's knows chr() 
> > only...
> 
> Sounds to me like calling it ichar() was an error, then.  Should be chr().
> 
> > Directly rename it, or add "alias" entry to the pg_proc? 
> 
> The alias would only be useful to people who had been using it as
> "ichar()" --- which is not many people, since it's undocumented ;-)
> Furthermore, now that I look, it looks like ichar() was new in
> contrib/odbc in 7.0 and has only recently been moved into the main
> code.
> 
> I vote for just renaming it to chr().  Any objections?

first thing off the top of my head ... was there a reason why it was added
to contrib/odbc?  ignoring the "oracle documentation", is it something
that is/was needed for ODBC?

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