> > Why should we add this Oraclism to PostgreSQL? I doesn't add any new
> > feature.
>
> Certainly, this feature falls well within the class of completely
> gratuitous proprietary extensions that we typically reject.

I now agree completely. My purpose is to migrate Oracle databases to
Posgres, and I had thought that Oracle didn't support CURRENT_DATE,
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, and so on. However, I've just learned otherwise. So,
I think the proper migration process for a production database would be
to first change the Oracle DB to use CURRENT_DATE (or some other
standard psuedo column), since that will work properly under both Oracle
and Postgres.

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