From: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org, Daniel CAUNE <d.caune@free.fr>
Subject: Re: SQL92 compliance
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:28:36 -0500
Message-ID: <1156357716.7223.23.camel@state.g2switchworks.com> (raw)
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On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 12:40, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > Am Mittwoch, 23. August 2006 03:40 schrieb Daniel CAUNE:
> >> Is AS in "SELECT my_column AS my_name FROM my_table" mandatory to be SQL92
> >> compliant?
>
> > No. I have a patch at
> > <http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/select-without-as/select-without-as.patch;
> > that fixes this at least for 7.4.
>
> I think it's a big stretch to say that that patch fixes it, since it
> only allows an AS-less target expression to be c_expr rather than
> a_expr as it ought to.
>
> The problem is really insoluble given that we allow user-defined
> postfix operators: is "SELECT x ~~ y" meant to be an infix operator
> with arguments x and y, or a postfix operator with argument x and
> a column label y?
>
> When this has come up in the past, we've always concluded that
> compliance with this not-very-well-thought-out detail of the spec
> is not worth the price of giving up postfix operators.
>
> Even if we were willing to do that, I think we'd also have to give
> up using bison to generate the parser :-( because some constructs
> would require more than one-token lookahead.
Would it be possible if we required postfix operators and related to be
inside parens?
select x ~~ y as yabba
OR
select (x ~~ y) yabba
Not that I'd want that. I prefer it the way it is too. Just more of an
intellectual exercise.
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