Re: SQL:2003 keyword additions

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, Troels Arvin <troels(at)arvin(dot)dk>
Subject: Re: SQL:2003 keyword additions
Date: 2004-11-23 23:22:29
Message-ID: 1361.1101252149@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> as per SQL:2003 Annex E pp.1173-1175 "Incompatibilities with SQL:1999",
> specifically point 17, pp.1174-1175:
> "A number of additional <reserved word>s have been added to the
> language".

We are not going to reserve words simply because they are reserved in
the standard. We go out of our way to make words as "little reserved"
as possible; words that we are not even using in the grammar don't have
to be reserved at all.

For future reference, the patch as proposed is broken anyway because it
doesn't add the keywords to the appropriate list in gram.y.

regards, tom lane

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