Re: SQL-spec incompatibilities in similar_escape() and related stuff

Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>

From: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera from 2ndQuadrant <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2019-09-06T18:47:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

 > Alvaro Herrera from 2ndQuadrant <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
 >> This discussion seems to have died down.  Apparently we have three
 >> directions here, from three different people.  Are we doing anything?

 Tom> I don't really want to do anything beyond the patch I submitted in
 Tom> this thread (at <32617.1558649424@sss.pgh.pa.us>).  That's what the
 Tom> CF entry is for, IMO.

I have no issues with this approach.

 Tom> I'm not excited about the change-of-keywords business, but if
 Tom> someone else is, they should start a new CF entry about that.

It's enough of a can of worms that I don't feel inclined to mess with it
absent some good reason (the spec probably isn't a good enough reason).
If postfix operators should happen to go away at some point then this
can be revisited.

-- 
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)



Commits

  1. Fix issues around strictness of SIMILAR TO.