Matt Miller wrote: > Yeah, and I don't expect that they'll be a rush to commit this to head > anytime soon. I'll be happy enough tracking this locally. I think it's > a win for my situation. > Why should we add this Oraclism to PostgreSQL? I doesn't add any new feature. I suggest you to contribute this kind of code to orafce project [1] because it's not standardized.
[1] http://pgfoundry.org/projects/orafce/ -- Euler Taveira de Oliveira http://www.timbira.com/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match