From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Fabrízio Mello <fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Add support to COMMENT ON CURRENT DATABASE |
Date: | 2017-01-09 19:34:27 |
Message-ID: | 20170109193427.GB19680@momjian.us |
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On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 01:34:03PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Peter Eisentraut
> <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > On 1/3/17 11:52 PM, Ashutosh Bapat wrote:
> >> We will need to make CURRENT_DATABASE a reserved keyword. But I like
> >> this idea more than COMMENT ON CURRENT DATABASE.
> >
> > We already have the reserved key word CURRENT_CATALOG, which is the
> > standard spelling. But I wouldn't be bothered if we made
> > CURRENT_DATABASE somewhat reserved as well.
>
> Maybe I'm just lacking in imagination, but what's the argument against
> spelling it CURRENT DATABASE? AFAICS, that doesn't require reserving
> anything new at all, and it also looks more SQL-ish to me. SQL
> generally tries to emulate English, and I don't normally
> speak_hyphenated_words.
I assume it is to match our use of CURRENT_USER as having special
meaning.
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