On lör, 2011-07-09 at 23:49 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> The new ALTER TABLE grammar seems a bit strange -- ADD, SET, DROP. Is
> this defined by the SQL/MED standard? It seems at odds with our
> handling of attoptions
Well, I believe the SQL/MED options were actually implemented first and
the attoptions afterwards. But it's probably not unwise to keep them
separate, even though the syntaxes could have been made more similar.