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Re: [HACKERS] Re: [SQL] prob with aggregate and group by - returnsmultiples

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

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From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, George Dau <gedau@isa.mim.com.au>, "'pgsql-sql@postgresql.org'" <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-02-29T14:35:08Z
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> > A major release is a good time to adjust syntax to promote
> > compliance...
> I've been (lightly) bashed in the past for proposing such things (see
> END/ABORT) but I'm with you. I think that TEMP may be far too wide-spread
> by now, though.

Well, imho the TEMP issue is not identical to END/ABORT. For TEMP, we
are unnecessarily restricting the space of possible identifiers,
eliminating a common and obvious name. The fix is trivial, and the
affected parties are *only* those who use temporary tables and who
chose to *not* use SQL92 syntax, which was always available.

                    - Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart				lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California