Re: The "Why Postgres not MySQL" bullet list - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Rod Taylor
Subject Re: The "Why Postgres not MySQL" bullet list
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Msg-id 1062366821.5470.15.camel@jester
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In response to Re: The "Why Postgres not MySQL" bullet list  (Ian Barwick <barwick@gmx.net>)
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> On that note I do have vague intentions of compiling a list
> of PostgreSQL gotchas. The only other one I have right now is
> PostgreSQL's mandatory AS as in
>   SELECT col AS whatever
> instead of the alternative
>   SELECT col whatever
>
> which IIRC is standard-compliant (there is a thread on this
> somewhere).

I believe in the spec AS is optional. Peter had a proposal for allowing
optional AS in PostgreSQL, but I don't remember why it wasn't
implemented.

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