Re: SQL feature requests

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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> Chuck McDevitt wrote:
> > PostgreSQL already has a huge amount of
> > "non-standard" syntax and semantics (perhaps "extensions" is a better
> > word?).
> > Everything from non-standard cast operator, non-standard substr,
> > non-standard trim, non standard group by semantics (allowing simple ints
> > to mean column number)... Given a day, we could probably write down
> > several pages of "non-standard" features of PGSQL.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Quite so, and I've perpetrated a few myself. But for the most part they
> are either there for legacy reasons or add significant extra functionality.
>
> I rather like Alvaro's compromise suggestion re aliases in fact. At
> least there seems to be a better case for that than for "group by 'blurfl'".
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> But the argument that convinces me is not that it follows some de facto
> standard, but that it would add to clarity. Requiring an alias where it
> isn't used seems to me a piece of less than excellent design.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
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