Re: FILTER for aggregates [was Re: Department of Redundancy Department: makeNode(FuncCall) division] - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: FILTER for aggregates [was Re: Department of Redundancy Department: makeNode(FuncCall) division]
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Msg-id CAM-w4HOdZ=429-mXwhuJ9BdjvUYuPBfWz__dJK7StNKjYd7nDg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: FILTER for aggregates [was Re: Department of Redundancy Department: makeNode(FuncCall) division]  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Re: FILTER for aggregates [was Re: Department of Redundancy Department: makeNode(FuncCall) division]  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: FILTER for aggregates [was Re: Department of Redundancy Department: makeNode(FuncCall) division]  (Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@ymail.com>)
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On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Or maybe they really don't give a damn about breaking
> applications every time they invent a new reserved word?

I think this is the obvious conclusion. In the standard the reserved
words are pretty explicitly reserved and not legal column names, no?

I think their model is that applications work with a certain version
of SQL and they're not expected to work with a new version without
extensive updating.

-- 
greg



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