Re: [INTERFACES] Re: [HACKERS] changes in 6.4 - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

> > > > hannu-> check (trim(a) <> '' or trim(b) <> ''));
> > > > ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "trim"
> > >
> > > TRIM is keyword, not a function...
> > > We have to copy some lines in gram.y
>
> I think that having trim as a keyword is a problem. The primary virtue of
> postgres is that everything is either a function or a type and as such is
> definable by the user and resolved at runtime. Making a keyword out of a
> function spoils that capability.

Problem was that SQL standard syntax (or Oracle) did not allow it to be
a function.

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