Re: Outstanding patches

Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>

From: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-11-07T06:03:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> CREATE SEQUENCE syntax changes: did we decide whether SQL99's notion of
> a sequence is close enough to ours that migrating to their syntax would
> be a good idea, and not just a source of confusion?  I seem to recall
> some doubts being voiced about this (by Peter?), and I'm not sure we
> resolved them.

Last I heard, we had concluded that SQL2003's notion of a sequence is
sufficiently close to ours that the differences are mostly syntax.

(Note that SQL99 does not define sequences.)

Cheers,

Neil

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