Matt Miller wrote:

> Yeah, and I don't expect that they'll be a rush to commit this to head
> anytime soon. I'll be happy enough tracking this locally. I think it's
> a win for my situation.
>
Why should we add this Oraclism to PostgreSQL? I doesn't add any new
feature.
I suggest you to contribute this kind of code to orafce project [1]
because it's not standardized.

[1] http://pgfoundry.org/projects/orafce/

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