Re: pg ANY/SOME ambiguity wrt sql standard?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>
Cc: PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg ANY/SOME ambiguity wrt sql standard?
Date: 2004-05-01 00:56:54
Message-ID: 8707.1083373014@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> writes:
> As a "temporary" fix, what about "_ANY" and "_SOME" as aggregate names?

Ick :-(. The use of leading underscores is an ugly C-ism that we should
not propagate into SQL names.

How about bool_or() and bool_and()? Or at least something based on OR
and AND? I don't find ANY/ALL to be particularly mnemonic for this
usage anyway.

regards, tom lane

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