Re: Proposal: QUALIFY clause - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Álvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Proposal: QUALIFY clause
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Msg-id 202507230812.cpptkfzdholh@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: Proposal: QUALIFY clause  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On 2025-Jul-22, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> If we were making up our own syntax this would be a sensible thing to
> debate. If we're talking about implementing something we expect to be in the
> standard, I think we will have to live with what the standards committee
> decides, regardless of our preference. We've almost certainly been preempted
> here by other RDBMSs using QUALIFY, heedless of English grammar.

The Romans, the Vikings, the Normans, all have influenced the English
language.  Why not SQL?

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Álvaro Herrera        Breisgau, Deutschland  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
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