Re: is syntax columname(tablename) necessary still?

Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> Personally I think cube is uncommonly used and CUBE an important
> enough SQL feature that we should just bite the bullet and kill/rename
> the contrib module.

Yeah. It looks to me like CUBE will have to be a type_function_name
keyword (but hopefully not fully reserved), which will mean that we
can't have a contrib module defining a type by that name. Ergo, rename.

> ... Now conceivably it's a word users
> might be using in their schema and that might be a good enough reason
> to hack up the grammar -- but it's not like it's a new keyword in SQL
> so it shouldn't come as a surprise to users when they get an error.

As long as we can avoid making it fully reserved, tables/columns named
"cube" will still work, so the damage should be limited.

regards, tom lane