Re: SQL99 ARRAY support proposal - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joe Conway
Subject Re: SQL99 ARRAY support proposal
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Msg-id 3E71065B.80804@joeconway.com
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In response to Re: SQL99 ARRAY support proposal  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: SQL99 ARRAY support proposal  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
>>Hmmm -- I doubt that would fly, although I see it is specifically 
>>allowed as a function name (func_name_keyword list). Anyone have 
>>opinions on this either way?
> 
> Good point --- it would work today, but any small tweak in the JOIN
> grammar might force us to reserve the keyword altogether.  It'd be
> safer to use a name that is not an SQL keyword ...

I'm leaning toward implode() and explode() now anyway because split() 
uses a regex for the delimiter in PHP (and probably Perl), and I was not 
planning to get that fancy.

Joe




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