On 21/07/2025 16:41, Tom Lane wrote:
> Isaac Morland <isaac.morland@gmail.com> writes:
>> I'll be honest, I'm skeptical that we need another keyword that basically
>> means “WHERE, but applied at a different point in the query processing”.
> That was my reaction too. I'm especially skeptical that getting out
> front of the SQL standards committee is a good thing to do. If and
> when this shows up in the standard, then sure.
It's "when", not "if". I submitted a paper for this to the committee
two years ago, but it was just a discussion paper and not an actual
change proposal. I have recently revived that paper so hopefully it
will be accepted within the next year. I would even like to push so
that we have it in 19.
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Vik Fearing
