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Re: per-column generic option

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Shigeru Hanada <shigeru.hanada@gmail.com>, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-07-11T15:44:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On lör, 2011-07-09 at 23:49 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> The new ALTER TABLE grammar seems a bit strange -- ADD, SET, DROP.  Is
> this defined by the SQL/MED standard?  It seems at odds with our
> handling of attoptions

Well, I believe the SQL/MED options were actually implemented first and
the attoptions afterwards.  But it's probably not unwise to keep them
separate, even though the syntaxes could have been made more similar.