On 10/23/19 11:27 AM, Geoff Winkless wrote:
On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 at 17:20, Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
For what it's worth, I can see a value to having
SELECT 'this is quite a long string'
'which I've joined together '
'across multiple lines';
although the advantage of it vs using a concat operator is slim.
As an aside, Postgres isn't the only DB to follow the standard here.
mysql> select 'hello'
-> ' there';
+-------------+
| hello |
+-------------+
| hello there |
+-------------+
This is the kind of weird stuff that we mocked mysql for.
This too would have been roundly mocked if discovered in mysql:
postgres=# select to_date('2018150X','YYYYMMDD');
to_date
------------
2019-03-03
(1 row)
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