Re: Why mention to Oracle ?

Em sex., 20 de set. de 2024 às 12:53, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> escreveu:

> As far as the mentions in "Data Type Formatting Functions" go, those
> are there because those functions are not in the SQL standard; we
> stole the API definitions for them from Oracle, lock stock and barrel.
> (Except for the discrepancies that are called out by referencing what
> Oracle does differently.)  A number of the other references probably
> have similar origins.
>

All the time we see somebody adding a new function to Postgres core that
exists in Python or GO or MySQL, but none of them are mentioned on DOCS.

I did never use Oracle but I'm almost sure on Oracle DOCS there are no
mentions of Postgres, right ? Why do we need to mention it ?

Regards
Marcos