Re: Call for objections: revision of keyword classification

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Call for objections: revision of keyword classification
Date: 2001-11-15 16:14:32
Message-ID: 12629.1005840872@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> I found that COALESCE, EXISTS, EXTRACT, NULLIF, POSITION, SUBSTRING, TRIM
> can be moved from ColLabel to ColId.

Really? I didn't bother experimenting with anything that had special
a_expr productions ... but now that you mention it, it makes sense that
anything whose special meaning requires a following left paren could
work as a ColId.

Are you recommending that we actually make this change now, or leave
it for a future round of experiments?

regards, tom lane

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