Re: [HACKERS] column labels now with obligatory 'as' - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] column labels now with obligatory 'as'
Date
Msg-id 199801091734.MAA29902@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] column labels now with obligatory 'as'  ("Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>)
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> We could probably break the shift/reduce conflict in yacc by insisting
> that right unary expressions be enclosed in parentheses, but that seems
> ugly. It is certainly true though that the most common action by users is
> labeling columns, not using right unary operators. Comments?
>
>                                                        - Tom
>
> Another lurking problem is allowing ";" to be an operator as well as a
> statement terminator. Probably a holdover from Postquel, but doesn't work
> at all well in SQL. We should yank it.

I agree on ';'.

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Bruce Momjian
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