Re: factorial function/phase out postfix operators?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Vik Fearing <vik(at)postgresfriends(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: factorial function/phase out postfix operators?
Date: 2020-05-20 22:21:17
Message-ID: 12005.1590013277@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2020-May-20, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I feel like we'd be better advised to somehow
>> treat can-be-bare-col-label as an independent classification.

> Would it make sense (and possible) to have a keyword category that is
> not disjoint wrt. the others? Maybe that ends up being easier than
> a solution that ends up with six or seven categories.

Yeah, that's the same thing I was vaguely imagining -- an independent
flag on each keyword as to whether it can be used as a bare column
alias.

regards, tom lane

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