It seems like it would be worth noting these (and any others) in the docs in some way. Is there a way for someone without a copy of the spec to be aware of which are functions and which are not, otherwise?

-tfo

On Sep 29, 2004, at 9:25 AM, Kris Jurka wrote:

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Thomas F.O'Connell wrote:

Note: EXTRACT is not a true function. SQL defines it as an expression
that happens to look similar to a function call.

Also, are there other expressions that fall into this category? I don't
know the spec well enough to know.

At least COALESCE and NULLIF are not functions.

Kris Jurka


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