From: David Hartwig <daveh@insightdist.com>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu@trust.ee>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: [HACKERS] changes in 6.4
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:40:56 -0400
Message-ID: <35AD13D8.38DAA63@insightdist.com> (raw)
References: <199807141537.LAA24391@candle.pha.pa.us>
<35AD0879.2EA15E8B@trust.ee>
Hannu Krosing wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> >
> > I was afraid I was going to insult someone by saying what I did.
> >
> > I MEANT that there are no features being added that a non-postgresql
> > user would be interested in. subselects was one feature that
> > non-postgresql users would understand. Most of our stuff now is
> > cleanup/extension of 6.3 features, many of which would be uninteresting
> > to potential users.
>
> Not requiring the column to sort on in target list ia also quite
> important.
>
Along these lines - I heard someone grumbling a while back about not being
able to use a function in the ORDER/GROUP BY clauses. (i.e. SELECT bar FROM
foo ORDER BY LCASE(alpha);) I believe it is on the TODO list. Bruce, I
will claim this item unless someone else already has.
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