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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Thomas F. O'Connell <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephan Szabo <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: EXTRACT Clarification
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:09:02 -0400
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"Thomas F. O'Connell" <[email protected]> writes:
> That seems reasonable, too, although I was interested to learn that 
> this (and a few other expressions) weren't actually functions.

They are functions ... but not from the point of view of the grammar,
which has special productions for them to cope with SQL's whimsical
syntax requirements.

			regards, tom lane

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