Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I notice we added CEILING() as an alias to CEIL() for compatibility.  We 
> also have POWER() for POW().
> 
> I notice that MySQL uses TRUNCATE() and we only have TRUNC().  Is 
> TRUNCATE actually spec compliant?  Should we add TRUNCATE anyway for 

I don't see either in the SQL99 standard.

> consistency and compatibility?

No, if we did that we would be carrying around a ton of stuff.

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