From: dg@illustra.com (David Gould)
Message-Id: <9807161829.AA16975@hawk.illustra.com>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: [HACKERS] changes in 6.4
To: hannu@trust.ee (Hannu Krosing)
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 11:29:26 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: vadim@krs.ru, pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org, hackers@postgreSQL.org
In-Reply-To: <35ADDC68.F13FACB0@trust.ee> from "Hannu Krosing" at Jul 16,
	98 01:56:40 pm
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> > > 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.

-dg


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