From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Organization: Aglio Database Solutions
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Some developer FAQ links need updating
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:19:46 -0700
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Peter, Folks:

> Since we have limited resources, I think it's OK that we concentrate on
> working with the latest official standards version.  And because the latest
> standards version is modularized and has individual feature lists and
> packages, it would be a lot easier for us to look good, and it would be
> more useful for users to, say, specify a workable set of requirements for
> their applications.

FWIW, there's two standards that application developers are concerned with as 
far as I can tell: SQL92, which is the "stable" standard that ensures 
cross-database compatibility (as well as the only standard that is readable) 
and SQL2003, which is the current standard and ensures buzzowrd-compliance as 
well as future prospects.

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco