Re: tweak CREATE SEQUENCE grammar

Patch rejected. Seems we need to address all the SQL standards changes
in this area in one patch.

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Neil Conway wrote:
> This patch makes a few minor changes to the parsing of CREATE SEQUENCE
> to allow for some syntax variations consistent with SQL 2002 (or
> whatever the official name of the current draft standard will be),
> section 11.62:
>
> START -> START [ WITH ]
> INCREMENT -> INCREMENT [ BY ]
> CYCLE -> [ NO ] CYCLE
>
> Should this new syntax be the default? Being standards-compliant is
> nice, and IMHO, the new syntax is nicer, anyway. But I'm not too
> worried about that, and I haven't encouraged the new syntax in the
> documentation.
>
> BTW, there are a few other small changes needed, as well as the
> addition of ALTER SEQUENCE, but other than that the new "sequence
> generator" feature of the standard is almost exactly what we've always
> implemented, AFAICT.
>
> This should be saved for 7.4, please.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil
>
> --
> Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> || PGP Key ID: DB3C29FC

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