Re: Wish: remove ancient constructs from Postgres

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Wish: remove ancient constructs from Postgres
Date: 2006-02-27 12:58:07
Message-ID: 200602271358.07682.peter_e@gmx.net
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Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2006 21:24 schrieb Neil Conway:
> I think a better approach would be to introduce the concept of "SQL
> dialects", similar to "--std=..." in GCC or SQL modes in MySQL 5. That
> would help people who want to write standard-compliant applications
> while not inconveniencing those who don't care.

Such a thing has been discussed from time to time but in reality you wouldn't
get useful results from it because just about any application will violate
the standard somewhere.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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