Re: [HACKERS] Beta for 4:30AST ... ?

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

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 2000-02-28T09:11:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > in the bootstrap scanner will solve the problem where it's being caused.
> > Internal type names should go away, not accumulate. ;)
> 
> I'm not sure that I agree that multi-word character types are required
> internally. Somehow that seems to just push the problem of
> SQL92-specific syntax to another part of the code. We could just as
> easily (?) translate *every* "xxx VARYING" to "varxxx" on input, and
> do the inverse on output or pg_dump.

Yes, seems we just don't want to do that during beta.  I forgot about
this item I had promised.  Sorry.

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