From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200105071704.f47H4jJ13963@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: Dateadd
In-Reply-To: <27100.989125217@sss.pgh.pa.us> "from Tom Lane at May 6,
	2001 01:00:17 am"
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 13:04:45 -0400 (EDT)
CC: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
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> There was some talk recently of putting together packages of function
> and operator definitions to ease portability from other DBMSes to PG.
> I'd have no objection to including "+ as string concatenation" in a
> set of operators that're clearly marked as MS-SQL-isms.  But I don't
> think we'd do the world any favor by adopting a clearly nonstandard
> notation as part of our standard operator set.

Now that someone else thinks this is a good idea, I have added to the
TODO list:

	* Allow plug-in modules to emulate features from other databases

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