Re: ascii to character conversion in postgres

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> >> 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?
> 
> Now that I look, it seems ODBC specifies the function as "char()",
> which means contrib/odbc is wrong on that score too :-(
> 
> New proposal: forget ichar(), give the function two entries chr() and
> char().

sounds good to me ... chr() == char(), I take it?  is there a reason for
having both vs just changing char() to chr() in the odbc stuff?