Re: Add hint for function named "is" - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Add hint for function named "is"
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Msg-id 8445.1471118560@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Add hint for function named "is"  (Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com>)
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Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com> writes:
> FWIW, I've always disliked how some types could contains spaces without 
> being quoted. AFAIK nothing else in the system allows that, and I don't 
> see why character varying and timestamp with* should get a special pass.

Because the SQL standard says so.  If we were going to start ignoring
SQL-standard spellings, this area would not be very high on my list,
actually.  Their insistence on inventing crazy new special syntaxes
for things that could be normal function calls is what bugs me ...
        regards, tom lane



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