| From: | Renaud Thonnart <thonnart(at)amwdb(dot)u-strasbg(dot)fr> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Norm SQL? |
| Date: | 2001-05-10 15:32:55 |
| Message-ID: | 3AFAB4A7.63EA1EA8@amwdb.u-strasbg.fr |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Renaud Thonnart <thonnart(at)amwdb(dot)u-strasbg(dot)fr> writes:
> > Which is the SQL norm of PostgreSQL?
> > I suppose it is SQL3 ?
>
> AFAIK, SQL3 is not a recognized standard. We are converging (slowly)
> on full support for SQL92, and we have some SQL99 features (and will
> have more over time, no doubt).
>
> I am not sure that we will ever be 100% compliant with either spec,
> however. There are legacy things that we don't particularly want to
> change --- for example, the choice of lower rather than upper case as
> the default case folding for identifiers.
>
> regards, tom lane
Thank you for your explaination Tom.
Sincerly,
Renaud THONNART
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