Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> There is a standard for this.  CREATE DOMAIN shows CREATE DOMAIN.
> 
> > OK, CVS changed to emit CREATE DOMAIN.
> 
> What's standard about it?  I count 9 existing statements that use
> "CREATE", vs 4 that use "CREATE xxx".  (And of those four, CREATE
> VERSION is dead code...)  The closest existing statement, CREATE
> TYPE, emits "CREATE".
> 
> Plain "CREATE" seems like the conforming choice, unless we'd like
> to do a wholesale revision of existing command tags.  Which is
> not necessarily an unreasonable thing to do.  But just making CREATE
> DOMAIN emit "CREATE DOMAIN" isn't improving consistency at all.

I assumed Peter meant some kind of ANSI SQL standard, but I am kind of
lost how they define that level of detail in the standard.  I agree a
wholesale cleanup there would be a good idea.

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