Re: Is there really no interest in SQL Standard? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Is there really no interest in SQL Standard?
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Msg-id 4E776EE3.1090206@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Is there really no interest in SQL Standard?  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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On 09/19/2011 12:20 PM, David Fetter wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:58:49AM -0400, Joe Abbate wrote:
>> On 09/19/2011 09:50 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> FWIW, the fact that the drafts *are* confidential is symptomatic
>>> of everything which is wrong with the ISO.
>> Maybe it's time for an open source SQL standard, one not controlled
>> by the "big guys" and their IP claims.
> That's probably not a bad idea.  The down side is that it'll be the work
> of decades, not years, to get this thing going.
>
>

Frankly, whether or not it might be desirable, it strikes me as probably 
simply tilting at windmills.

cheers

andrew


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