Re: [HACKERS] column labels now with obligatory 'as'

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu (Thomas G. Lockhart)
Cc: Andreas.Zeugswetter@telecom.at, pgsql-hackers@hub.org
Date: 1998-01-09T17:34:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> We could probably break the shift/reduce conflict in yacc by insisting
> that right unary expressions be enclosed in parentheses, but that seems
> ugly. It is certainly true though that the most common action by users is
> labeling columns, not using right unary operators. Comments?
> 
>                                                        - Tom
> 
> Another lurking problem is allowing ";" to be an operator as well as a
> statement terminator. Probably a holdover from Postquel, but doesn't work
> at all well in SQL. We should yank it.

I agree on ';'.

-- 
Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us