pg ANY/SOME ambiguity wrt sql standard?

From: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>
To: PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: pg ANY/SOME ambiguity wrt sql standard?
Date: 2004-04-28 13:21:00
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.58.0404281456470.28436@sablons.cri.ensmp.fr
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I'm looking into adding sql standard aggregates EVERY/ANY/SOME.
It seems to me that there is a syntax ambiguity with ANY and SOME:

CREATE TABLE bla(b BOOL);
SELECT TRUE = ANY(b) FROM bla;

Is parsed as an array-operator and there is a semantical error because no
array is provided. Now ANY could be an aggregate function call, and it
should be fine.

However I really cannot see (my usual lack of imagination) how to handle
this from the parser.

Thus I'm afraid that I'll have to rewrite the A_Expr structure into a
FuncCall to 'any' or 'some' somewhere.

Comments? Any better idea?

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Fabien Coelho - coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr

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