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To: David Christensen <[email protected]>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] GROUP BY ALL
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 09:59:29 -0700
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On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 9:48 AM David Christensen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Sure, not everything that makes things easier is strictly necessary;
> we could require `CAST(field AS text)` instead of `::text`,
Probably should have...being standard and all. Though syntactic sugar is
quite different from new behavior - transforming :: to CAST is
straight-forward.
make
> subqueries required for transforming oids into specific system tables
> instead of `::regfoo` casts,
Since OID is non-standard this falls within our purview.
any number of other choices, remove
> `SELECT *` as a parse option,
Again, standard dictated.
but making it easier to do common things
> interactively as a DBA has value as well.
>
>
Agreed, but this isn't a clear-cut win, and doesn't have standard
conformance to tip the scale over fully.
Also, there are so many better tools for data exploration. Removing this
quirk only marginally closes that gap.
David J.
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