Re: Special table names - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Marcin Krol
Subject Re: Special table names
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Msg-id 4B87F64B.60700@gmail.com
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In response to Re: Special table names  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> It isn't a table.  It's a function, equivalent to CURRENT_USER.
>
> (Both of those are mandated by the SQL spec; we'd certainly never have
> invented functions called without parentheses on our own desires.)

Curioser and curioser. That + SQLA hack == one confused developer trying
to name a seemingly innocent table 'users'. :-)

Thanks to everyone!

Regards,
mk



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