Re: ISO/IEC 9075-2:2016 for postgres community

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

> Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I just bought ISO/IEC 9075-2:2016
> > http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_
> detail.htm?csnumber=63556
> > to satisfy my interest on json support in SQL. I am not ready to discuss
> > here implementation details, but there is one problem with the status of
> > this document, which is copyright protected.
> >
> > "All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this
> > publication may be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form or by any
> > means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, or posting on
> the
> > internet or an intranet, without prior written permission. Permission can
> > be requested from either ISO at the address below or ISO’s member body in
> > the country of the requester."
> >
> > My question is should we ask ISO for permission to use my copy in our
> > community or should we buy at least one another copy (for reviewer) ?
>
> With previous versions, we have relied on draft versions
> "indistinguishable from latest" posted by third parties. I couldn't
> find such a version for sql2106 in an (admittedly very quick) search.
>

I found several mentions about such a draft, but failed to find any. I
think we can wait until we have a prototype or somebody share a link.

> I doubt ISO would give the community permission to use your copy, but it
> wouldn't hurt to ask them.
>

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