On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 3:16 PM Daniel Gustafsson <
daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
> The syntax of current_user and current_role are mandated by the SQL
> specification, we have this note in the documentation:
>
> "current_catalog, current_role, current_schema, current_user,
> session_user, and user have special syntactic status in SQL: they must
> be called without trailing parentheses. In PostgreSQL, parentheses can
> optionally be used with current_schema, but not with the others."
To further illuminate why the last one is special: It's not a fully-reserved keyword:
$ grep current_ src/include/parser/kwlist.h
PG_KEYWORD("current_catalog", CURRENT_CATALOG, RESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
PG_KEYWORD("current_date", CURRENT_DATE, RESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
PG_KEYWORD("current_role", CURRENT_ROLE, RESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
PG_KEYWORD("current_schema", CURRENT_SCHEMA, TYPE_FUNC_NAME_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
PG_KEYWORD("current_time", CURRENT_TIME, RESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
PG_KEYWORD("current_timestamp", CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, RESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
PG_KEYWORD("current_user", CURRENT_USER, RESERVED_KEYWORD, BARE_LABEL)
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John Naylor
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