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Re: [INTERFACES] Re: [HACKERS] changes in 6.4

David Gould <dg@illustra.com>

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From: dg@illustra.com (David Gould)
To: hannu@trust.ee (Hannu Krosing)
Cc: vadim@krs.ru, pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-07-16T18:29:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> > > hannu-> check (trim(a) <> '' or trim(b) <> ''));
> > > ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "trim"
> > 
> > TRIM is keyword, not a function...
> > We have to copy some lines in gram.y

I think that having trim as a keyword is a problem. The primary virtue of
postgres is that everything is either a function or a type and as such is
definable by the user and resolved at runtime. Making a keyword out of a
function spoils that capability.

-dg


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