Mark Butler writes:
> I just noticed the SQL-92 FLOAT datatype is implemented in the grammar but is
> not documented in the manual.
It's in the 7.1 manual.
> By the way, what was the ANSI/ISO SQL committee thinking when they made up
> perverse names like "CHARACTER VARYING"? (Not to mention all the functions
> that require special grammar rules just to parse...)
There is strong evidence that they were only thinking a small fraction of
the total time.
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