Received: from u1.abs.net (root@u1.abs.net [207.114.0.131]) by hub.org (8.8.8/8.7.5) with ESMTP id QAA16733 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:57:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from insightdist.com (nobody@localhost) by u1.abs.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with UUCP id QAA27311 for hackers@postgreSQL.org; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:45:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: u1.abs.net: nobody set sender to insightdist.com!daveh using -f Received: from ceodev by insightdist.com (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA44301; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:35:51 -0400 Received: from daveh by ceodev (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA32922; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:35:50 -0400 Message-Id: <35AD13D8.38DAA63@insightdist.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:40:56 -0400 From: David Hartwig Organization: Insight Distribution Systems X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Hannu Krosing Cc: Bruce Momjian , pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org, hackers@postgreSQL.org Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: [HACKERS] changes in 6.4 References: <199807141537.LAA24391@candle.pha.pa.us> <35AD0879.2EA15E8B@trust.ee> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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.