From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: dg@illustra.com
Cc: hannu@trust.ee
Cc: vadim@krs.ru
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: [HACKERS] changes in 6.4
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 14:37:17 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <199807161837.OAA05257@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9807161829.AA16975@hawk.illustra.com>
> > > > hannu-> check (trim(a) <> '' or trim(b) <> ''));
> > > > ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "trim"
> > >
> > > TRIM is keyword, not a function...
> > > We have to copy some lines in gram.y
>
> I think that having trim as a keyword is a problem. The primary virtue of
> postgres is that everything is either a function or a type and as such is
> definable by the user and resolved at runtime. Making a keyword out of a
> function spoils that capability.
Problem was that SQL standard syntax (or Oracle) did not allow it to be
a function.
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