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

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> — 1998-01-09T17:34:37Z

> 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