Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On tor, 2009-09-03 at 11:19 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> Sure, but I don't think it makes a lot of sense to spend a lot of time
>> implementing the standard behavior unless someone can provide a
>> plausible use case.
> One use case is porting Oracle applications. I see a lot of that used
> there. The original proposer might had have other ideas.
That's only a good argument if we are prepared to implement exactly
Oracle's semantics for the feature ... which, frankly, I have no reason
whatever to assume are exactly like the standard's :-(
regards, tom lane