On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 23:54, Justin Clift wrote:
> The "92 scheme specification" is the American National Standards
> Organisation (ANSI) SQL92 standard, which specifies the SQL query
> language used by most major relational databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle,
> DB2, Sybase, etc).
"SQL query language" is redundant.
Not sure why there's a need to mention ANSI, as it's not as if there are
competing SQL92 standards :-) And name-dropping standards bodies is a
bit pretentious, IMHO.
The "92 scheme specification" isn't SQL92 (as your first sentence
implies), it's a part of SQL92.
> PostgreSQL has actively been adding ANSI SQL features for many years
> and is now one of the most ANSI SQL compliant databases in existence.
> [is this true?]
Sounds pretty dubious to me.
> Maybe we should use this opportunity to build anticipation? Something
> like "Because we'll be adding native support for Windows, Point in Time
> recovery, and other advanced features in PostgreSQL 7.4, our initial
> target date is around April 2003".
I still think mentioning a release date, even as an"initial target", is
not appropriate, particularly since it hasn't been discussed yet on
-hackers.
But I'm fine with mentioning some of the possible features in 7.4,
*provided* that you make it clear that those are tentative plans.
Cheers,
Neil
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