| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Jochem van Dieten <jochemd(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Adding column comment to information_schema.columns |
| Date: | 2004-07-03 02:51:56 |
| Message-ID: | 16194.1088823116@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Jochem van Dieten <jochemd(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I didn't write that (or at least, I didn't mean to write that :-). The
> SQL standard tells that they will not use trailing underscores,
Um ... actually that's not what it says:
> "NOTE 77 - It is the intention that no <key word> specified in ISO/IEC
> 9075 or revisions thereto shall end with an <underscore>."
This refers to keywords, NOT to column names which are just identifiers.
It may be that the SQL committee does not intend to standardize any
information_schema column names that end with underscore, but this
particular note certainly doesn't promise that.
regards, tom lane
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