Re: json api WIP patch

Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-02-04T14:18:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> But even leaving that aside, I'm surprised to hear so many people
> dismissing SQL standards compliance so blithely.  We've certainly
> spent a lot of blood, sweat, and tears on minor standards-compliance
> issues over they years - why is it OK to not care about this
> particular issue when we've spent so much effort caring about other
> ones?

Does the SQL Standard suggest you can't extend the language with
operators?  Or does it reserve certain characters for future use?  And
if so, is there a list?

merlin