Re: IDENTITY/GENERATED patch

Tom Lane írta:
> Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
>
>> as the wishlist for PostgreSQL 8.4 still has my
>> IDENTITY/GENERATED patches, I thought I refresh it.
>> Before actually doing it though, I wanted to ask for opinions
>> on implementation and ideas.
>>
>
> IIRC the end conclusion on that patch was that it was awfully messy,
> didn't really buy much in new functionality, and was trying to track a
> portion of the spec that the SQL committee had apparently not gotten
> right yet.
>
>
>> It seems the last draft for SQL:2008 largely clarified details for
>> IDENTITY columns that were either conflicting or unclear in SQL:2003.
>>
>
> Implementing stuff that's still changing in a *draft* standard seems
> to me like a good way to get burnt.
>

From http://www.wiscorp.com/SQLStandards.html :

SQL:2008 Draft International Standard Documents
<http://www.wiscorp.com/sql200n.zip> (Updated 12/14/2007) - *Updated!!!*
This points to the /documents which wlll likely be the documents that
represent the SQL 2008 Standard.
These documents are out for International Standard ballot at this time.
The vote is an Up/Down vote. No changes allowed./

I think it's time to start looking at it.

> I think this needs to stay on the back burner, at least until there's
> a published final spec that doesn't seem as broken as 2003 was. I
> was sufficiently disillusioned with the whole thing at the end of
> the previous review cycle
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-05/msg00441.php
> that I'm not really eager to pour more time down the same hole.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>

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Zoltán Böszörményi
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