From: | "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> |
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To: | "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Erik Rijkers" <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl> |
Cc: | "Mark Kirkwood" <mark(dot)kirkwood(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz>, "Srinivas Naik" <naik(dot)srinu(at)gmail(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Reg: SQL Query for Postgres 8.4.3 |
Date: | 2010-05-04 14:29:47 |
Message-ID: | 4BDFE90B020000250003123A@gw.wicourts.gov |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I think the OP is probably running a version that doesn't include
> the Jan 7 commit, which was effectively undone by the Jan 25
> commit for CVS HEAD.
It sure looks like it.
> It looks like this was intentional based on spec behavior
> of overlay(), but should we consider maintaining the historical
> behavior instead?
I know I read through the spec (several versions of it) related to
this issue when I reviewed the patch, and if memory serves the 9.0
behavior is what the spec requires. Obviously that's a behavior
change, so it can't be back-patched. I'm inclined to think the
previous behavior was pretty marginal, and there is certainly a
workaround -- omit the third parameter rather than specifying a
negative number:
SELECT substring(B'1111000000000001' from 5);
substring
--------------
000000000001
(1 row)
SELECT substring(B'1111000000000001' from 4);
substring
---------------
1000000000001
(1 row)
We have maintained nonstandard behavior in the past for
compatibility reasons, so it's a fair question; however, I'm
inclined toward the standard on this one.
-Kevin
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