Re: SQL feature requests - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: SQL feature requests
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Msg-id 20070824142932.GE19180@phlogiston.dyndns.org
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In response to Re: SQL feature requests  ("Chuck McDevitt" <cmcdevitt@greenplum.com>)
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 02:06:16PM -0400, Chuck McDevitt wrote:
> In general, we wouldn't want to support any de facto standard that:
> 
>   1.  Is supported only by one vendor
>   2.  Causes any standard SQL statement to fail, or return a different
> answer from the standard.
> 
> The proposed change doesn't fail either of these.

From what I can see upthread, it fails 1 and possibly 2.  Given that
we don't seem to know _why_ it is forbidden, there could well be a
case under 2 is a problem, and we haven't thought of it.

A

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