Re: [HACKERS] Re: [QUESTIONS] is Postgres an SQL-based database?
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu (Thomas G. Lockhart)
Cc: hackers@postgresql.org, sferac@bo.nettuno.it
Date: 1998-02-04T17:57:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > > > In this release there's a very useful function LENGTH(), thanks to Thomas. > > > but it's not SQL. CHARACTER_LENGTH() or CHAR_LENGTH() this is SQL. > > Perhaps we can translate function names in the parser as we do for type > > names? I'll look into it... > > I have gram.y patches to do this. No visible effect on the regression execution speed, > which thanks to Bruce is on my machine down to a record 2:23 elapsed execution time; > the last speeds were in the 2:31 range. > > I'm planning on bumping the gram.y cvs version to 2.0 for this change, due to the > _large_ number of accumulated improvements. Any objections? Go ahead. Are there security problems? -- Bruce Momjian maillist@candle.pha.pa.us