On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 07:40:23PM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # kleptog@xxxxxxxxx / 2005-08-10 11:22:16 +0200: > > Well, it's not a feature, so I'm not sure why it would be mentioned > > there. It's PostgreSQL's implementation of the standard. > > That page has this heading: "Appendix D. SQL Conformance" Ah, well, I'm not going to comment on what should or shouldn't be on that page. I've never seen nor read the standard so I'm not the right person to decide on that. > > It is all explained it detail in: > > > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/sql-syntax.html#SQL-SYNTAX-IDENTIFIERS > > Seeing as the last para in 4.1.1. Identifiers and Key Words seems to > be almost exactly what you came up with (not accusing you of > "plagiarism" or such, the wording is obvious, and different people > will arrive at virtually identical explanations), wouldn't just > linking there suffice? (I'm a bit worried about information scatter > and duplication). Heh, it is the same really. I guess after a certain number of times you just end up saying the same thing as the docs. I guess it could be trimmed to remove the duplication... -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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