Re: [HACKERS] ascii to character conversion in postgres

[The Hermit Hacker]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 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?
> 
> We don't control the ODBC specification ...

okay, granted, but, other then ODBC, do we need the char() type?  could it
not be an internal translation in the ODBC driver itself?