>>>> If not, I'd vote for pulling it out. That's a heck of a poor word to
>>>> reserve.
>> I am afraid of lots of user complaints, even if we had not already used
>> TEMP.
> OK, but we've already got "user complaints" about TEMP being a
> reserved word, so that part seems to balance out. There is apparently
> no basis in published standards for TEMP being a reserved word. And
> btw it is not currently documented as a reserved word in
> syntax.sgml...
The real problem is not that we accept TEMP as a synonym for TEMPORARY;
it is that we treat TEMP as a reserved word. What are the chances that
we could make it a member of the ColId list? I am thinking that
"... INTO TEMP temp" is *not* ambiguous given one token lookahead...
regards, tom lane
