Re: factorial function/phase out postfix operators? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: factorial function/phase out postfix operators?
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Msg-id 12005.1590013277@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: factorial function/phase out postfix operators?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2020-May-20, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I feel like we'd be better advised to somehow
>> treat can-be-bare-col-label as an independent classification.

> Would it make sense (and possible) to have a keyword category that is
> not disjoint wrt. the others?  Maybe that ends up being easier than
> a solution that ends up with six or seven categories.

Yeah, that's the same thing I was vaguely imagining -- an independent
flag on each keyword as to whether it can be used as a bare column
alias.

            regards, tom lane



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