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From: Thomas F.O'Connell <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephan Szabo <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: EXTRACT Clarification
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:46:39 -0400
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Ah, so it's really a question of whether the syntactic sugar of CREATE 
INDEX is considered worthwhile by the developers (rather than a 
standards compliance issue) because CREATE INDEX is not a part of the 
SQL spec?

Now that I understand what's going on, I don't have a strong 
preference, but I'd say that either it needs noting in the 
documentation or it should be added to the grammar.

And if it isn't going to hit the grammar for 7.4.x, I'd be happy to 
supply a doc patch.

-tfo

On Sep 29, 2004, at 12:09 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Thomas F. O'Connell" <[email protected]> writes:
>> That seems reasonable, too, although I was interested to learn that
>> this (and a few other expressions) weren't actually functions.
>
> They are functions ... but not from the point of view of the grammar,
> which has special productions for them to cope with SQL's whimsical
> syntax requirements.
>
> 			regards, tom lane




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