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From: Vik Fearing <[email protected]>
To: Simon Riggs <[email protected]>
To: Surafel Temesgen <[email protected]>
Cc: Ryan Lambert <[email protected]>
Cc: Masahiko Sawada <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Cc: RĂ©mi Lapeyre <[email protected]>
Cc: Eli Marmor <[email protected]>
Cc: David Steele <[email protected]>
Cc: Vik Fearing <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Georgios <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: WIP: System Versioned Temporal Table
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 15:03:49 +0100
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On 1/14/21 10:22 PM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 5:46 PM Surafel Temesgen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 7:50 PM Ryan Lambert <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I prefer to have them hidden by default.  This was mentioned up-thread with no decision, it seems the standard is ambiguous.  MS SQL appears to have flip-flopped on this decision [1].
> 
> I think the default should be like this:
> 
> SELECT * FROM foo FOR SYSTEM_TIME AS OF ...
> should NOT include the Start and End timestamp columns
> because this acts like a normal query just with a different snapshot timestamp
> 
> SELECT * FROM foo FOR SYSTEM_TIME BETWEEN x AND y
> SHOULD include the Start and End timestamp columns
> since this form of query can include multiple row versions for the
> same row, so it makes sense to see the validity times


I don't read the standard as being ambiguous about this at all.  The
columns should be shown just like any other column of the table.

I am not opposed to being able to set an attribute on columns allowing
them to be excluded from "*" but that is irrelevant to this patch.
-- 
Vik Fearing





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