Re: Outstanding patches

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Outstanding patches
Date: 2002-11-07 06:03:17
Message-ID: 87ptthhq6y.fsf@mailbox.samurai.com
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Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> CREATE SEQUENCE syntax changes: did we decide whether SQL99's notion of
> a sequence is close enough to ours that migrating to their syntax would
> be a good idea, and not just a source of confusion? I seem to recall
> some doubts being voiced about this (by Peter?), and I'm not sure we
> resolved them.

Last I heard, we had concluded that SQL2003's notion of a sequence is
sufficiently close to ours that the differences are mostly syntax.

(Note that SQL99 does not define sequences.)

Cheers,

Neil

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