Re: Add support to COMMENT ON CURRENT DATABASE

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Fabrízio Mello <fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Add support to COMMENT ON CURRENT DATABASE
Date: 2017-01-09 20:15:53
Message-ID: a97c6033-27e9-ab2e-4acf-8a671af98a6c@2ndquadrant.com
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On 1/9/17 2:52 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> CURRENT_USER is a standards-mandated keyword, but CURRENT_DATABASE is
> not. The closest thing SQL has is CURRENT_CATALOG, which is the string
> that identifies the "current default catalog". This would lead us to
> COMMENT ON DATABASE CURRENT_CATALOG
>
> Do we want that spelling? It looks ugly to me.

Hence my suggestion earlier to make CURRENT_DATABASE reserved.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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