On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
It is an open issue. It has to be resolved. When it is, I will remove
it. I added a question mark to it but it needs to be tracked. I keep
having to add and remove it
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Who implemented SIMILAR TO in the first place?
Thomas. He put in the syntax, but as it stands it's simply syntactic
sugar for ~ --- that is, our Posix-compatible regex match operator.
Since the spec demands very non-Posix behavior, this is wrong.
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Right, so you have two telling you to remove it, one telling you to add
it, and two that are discussion why/if it *should* be added ... Tom feels
it should be added, and I'm clarifing the why of it ... don't re-add it
until we've determined *if* it
Tom Lane wrote:
AFAICS, getting SIMILAR TO to operate per spec would require adding some
sort of translation function that converts the spec-style pattern into
a Posix pattern that our regex match engine would handle. This would at
least require adding ^ and $ around the pattern, converting
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Thomas Lockhart wrote:
...
Fix SIMILAR TO to be Posix compiant or remove it
Sorry, was there a decision here?
No one has described the problem, just declared that there is one and
declared that the feature should be removed.
In the
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
Well, if nobody can identify what exactly the problem is, it should
definitely be removed from the Open Items list ... maybe we need to lay
down some 'rules' for the TODO list? Some sort of criteria other hten
someone suggested it to work with? For instance, change
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
I think you are confusing the open items list with the TODO list. TODO
usually has some basis, while open items is just that, things we need to
decide on. Peter brought it up and wanted it on the list so I put it
on. I can be taken off just as
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
I think you are confusing the open items list with the TODO list. TODO
usually has some basis, while open items is just that, things we need to
decide on. Peter brought it up and wanted it on the list so I put it
on.
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm in agreement with Thomas here ... unless a problem has been defined a
bit more specifically then 'it isn't posix compliant', it shouldn't be
considered an open item ... please remove?
A quick review of SQL99 says that their notion of SIMILAR TO
Re-added to open items:
Fix SIMILAR TO to be ANSI compliant or remove it (Peter, Tom)
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Tom Lane wrote:
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm in agreement with Thomas here ... unless a problem has
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Re-added to open items:
Fix SIMILAR TO to be ANSI compliant or remove it (Peter, Tom)
Tke that @#$@$@@$@#$ thing out of there until its actually been fully
discussed ... you are starting to remind me of Charlie Brown ... this, I
think, was
It is an open issue. It has to be resolved. When it is, I will remove
it. I added a question mark to it but it needs to be tracked. I keep
having to add and remove it because I have people telling me what to do.
It was Peter who told me to add it, and you and Thomas to remove it. It
isn't
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
It is an open issue. It has to be resolved. When it is, I will remove
it. I added a question mark to it but it needs to be tracked. I keep
having to add and remove it because I have people telling me what to do.
It was Peter who told me to add
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
It is an open issue. It has to be resolved. When it is, I will remove
it. I added a question mark to it but it needs to be tracked. I keep
having to add and remove it because I have people telling me what to do.
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