Re: Outstanding patches - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: Outstanding patches
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In response to Re: Outstanding patches  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> CREATE SEQUENCE syntax changes: did we decide whether SQL99's notion of
> a sequence is close enough to ours that migrating to their syntax would
> be a good idea, and not just a source of confusion?  I seem to recall
> some doubts being voiced about this (by Peter?), and I'm not sure we
> resolved them.

Last I heard, we had concluded that SQL2003's notion of a sequence is
sufficiently close to ours that the differences are mostly syntax.

(Note that SQL99 does not define sequences.)

Cheers,

Neil

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