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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Add support to COMMENT ON CURRENT DATABASE
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Msg-id a97c6033-27e9-ab2e-4acf-8a671af98a6c@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to [HACKERS] Add support to COMMENT ON CURRENT DATABASE  (Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello@gmail.com>)
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On 1/9/17 2:52 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> CURRENT_USER is a standards-mandated keyword, but CURRENT_DATABASE is
> not.  The closest thing SQL has is CURRENT_CATALOG, which is the string
> that identifies the "current default catalog".  This would lead us to
>     COMMENT ON DATABASE CURRENT_CATALOG
> 
> Do we want that spelling?  It looks ugly to me.

Hence my suggestion earlier to make CURRENT_DATABASE reserved.

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