Re: SQL feature requests

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Florian G(dot) Pflug" <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SQL feature requests
Date: 2007-08-24 01:19:17
Message-ID: 15668.1187918357@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Florian G. Pflug" <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org> writes:
> The really funny thing is that pgsql, mysql and at least sybase
> *explicitly* dissallow the no-alias case.

I knew that pgsql does that, because I made sure it did ;-). But it is
pretty interesting that these other DBMSes also go out of their way to
produce a specific error. As you say, that suggests that they could
have accepted it, if they'd wanted to, at least from the standpoint of
not having a grammar structure problem.

regards, tom lane

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