RE: Big 7.1 open items

Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>

From: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>

To: "Philip J. Warner" <pjw@rhyme.com.au>, "Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>, "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

Cc: "Jan Wieck" <JanWieck@yahoo.com>, "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>

Date: 2000-06-21T05:12:48Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

At 11:22 AM 6/21/00 +1000, Philip J. Warner wrote:

>It may be worth considering leaving the CREATE TABLE statement alone.
>Dec/RDB uses a new statement entirely to define where a table goes...

It's worth considering, but on the other hand Oracle users greatly
outnumber Compaq/RDB users these days...

If there's no SQL92 guidance for implementing a feature, I'm pretty much in
favor of tracking Oracle, whose SQL dialect is rapidly becoming a
de-facto standard. 

I'm not saying I like the fact, Oracle's a pain in the ass.  But when
adopting existing syntax, might as well adopt that of the crushing
borg.

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