Re: Proposal: QUALIFY clause - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> wrote:
>> * I'm not exactly convinced that the committee would standardize
>> it just like this.  For one thing, QUALIFY is not even the right
>> part of speech: it's a verb, and thus more fit to be a primary
>> statement keyword.  What you need here is an adverb (I think ...
>> been a long time since high school English, but my dictionary
>> says WHERE is an adverb).  Maybe they'd be persuaded to do what
>> the existing implementations did, but I wouldn't be at all surprised
>> if they choose a different keyword.
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> I know we're not bikeshedding, but the word REFINE might be more appropriate.

I vote for DONTGIMMEDAT.


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