Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I should have commented on this earlier: I don't think exact Oracle > compatibility is _at all_ important.
The results of Pavel's experiments prove that Oracle's behavior is pretty random --- it looks to me like the chance results of whatever quick-and-dirty implementation someone chose long ago, rather than behavior that was thought out and agreed to. I concur that we shouldn't feel a compulsion to match it exactly, especially seeing that we aren't going to match it exactly in terms of the contents of the variables, let alone fine details of what they may contain at different times. > As for "what makes the most sense", I like Tom's proposal here: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-05/msg00311.php > Does this sound reasonable to people? Sounds good to me of course ;-) regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
