I concur. about holding for 7.2. Though this is of limited danger, it
is not something that is really in hight demand.
> Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
> > I *assume* that this will have trouble making it in to 7.1, and since
> > keywords are likely added this may have trouble with 7.1.x (not sure
> > about that; perhaps the lex-generated token values never make it into
> > the database tables, but they *do* propagate into structures used deeper
> > in the backend).
>
> Since he didn't add a new parsetree node type, there wouldn't be any
> database compatibility issue AFAIK. I'm pretty certain that keyword
> token values never get into stored rules.
>
> However, there is our self-imposed "no new features during beta" rule.
> This looks like a relatively harmless patch, but do we want to break
> that rule for something that people are not beating down our doors for?
>
> I'd vote for holding it for 7.2, I think.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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