From: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> |
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To: | Chris <chris(at)bitmead(dot)com> |
Cc: | "pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [SQL] Re: [HACKERS] Proposed Changes to PostgreSQL |
Date: | 2000-02-05 13:33:13 |
Message-ID: | 389C2699.B81F5921@tm.ee |
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Chris wrote:
>
> Hannu Krosing wrote:
>
> > I think the operative word here is "available". I know that SQL specs
> > are'nt freely available either, but due to SQL being already widely
> > supported one can get the general idea from many freely available sources,
> > like the bunch of freely downloadable DB's currently available for linux.
> > Most of them have some docs included.
> >
> > It is still quite a job to reconstruct SQL92 from them ;)
> >
> > I know now description (except a BNF syntax available from some ODBMS website)
> > that I could use to get some idea about OQL.
>
> Poet at http://www.poet.com have their doco online including OQL.
>
Thanks, I'll check that.
Btw, has anyone compared PostgreSQL's object features with SQL3 (draft)
features.
For example they seem to use UNDER instead of INHERITS and no parentheses.
They also have a special privilege also called UNDER for being able to define
a subtype (as they call it). A lot of other features seem to be considered too
-
no wonder it is 2.3 MB text file.
available at:
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/standards/sql/
or
http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/standards/sql/
the main file is sql-foundation-aug94.txt
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Hannu
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