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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Gierth <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Oliver Ford <[email protected]>
Cc: Krasiyan Andreev <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Add RESPECT/IGNORE NULLS and FROM FIRST/LAST options
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2018 20:20:02 -0400
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Andrew Gierth <[email protected]> writes:
> "Tom" == Tom Lane <[email protected]> writes:
>  Tom> If you just think of recognizing FROM FIRST/LAST, you get nowhere
>  Tom> because that's still legal in other contexts. But if you were to
>  Tom> look for FROM followed by FIRST/LAST followed by
>  Tom> IGNORE/RESPECT/OVER, I think that could only validly happen in
>  Tom> this syntax.

> No; you need to go four tokens ahead in total, not three. Assuming
> nth_value is unreserved, then
>   select nth_value(x) from first ignore;
> is a valid query that has nth_value(x) as an expression, "first" as a
> table name and "ignore" as its alias.

No, because once IGNORE is a keyword, even unreserved, it's not legal
as an AS-less alias.  We'd be breaking queries like that no matter what.

(I know there are people around here who'd like to remove that
restriction, but it's not happening anytime soon IMO.)

			regards, tom lane

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