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?

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Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us