Andrew Gierth wrote: > >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> Tom> Right, but we should be trying to move in that direction. I see > Tom> your point though that (*) is more notationally consistent with > Tom> that case. Maybe we should be looking at trying to implement T641 > Tom> in full and then including (*) as a special case of that. > > I would have liked to have done that, but that would have raised the > complexity of the project from "Atri can take a stab at this one with > negligible supervision" to "Andrew will have to spend more time than he > has conveniently available staring at the raw parser to try and make it > work". Not to mention that, at this stage, we should be looking at reducing the scope of patches in commitfest rather than enlarge it. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers