From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Byron Nikolaidis <byron.nikolaidis@home.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Functions vs. Columns?????
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 06:04:36 +0000
Message-ID: <38AA3DF4.A3AC0E00@alumni.caltech.edu> (raw)
References: <38AA04D4.4FDA646C@home.com>
> It seems that there should be some consistency here in the use of
> parenthesis. I don't really know how these things are handled on the
> backend, but it seems that parenthesis are the more correct way, or at
> least both should be allowed.
The ones without parens are SQL-mandated "constants" which are
translated in the parser front end into function calls (usually with
some other name for historical reasons). Other function calls, like
now(), are really that: function calls.
> Any thoughts?
Uh, sure ;)
- Thomas
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Thomas Lockhart lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California
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