Re: is syntax columname(tablename) necessary still?

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 2010/8/9 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
>> Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
>>> Personally I think cube is uncommonly used and CUBE an important
>>> enough SQL feature that we should just bite the bullet and kill/rename
>>> the contrib module.
>>
>> Yeah.  It looks to me like CUBE will have to be a type_function_name
>> keyword (but hopefully not fully reserved), which will mean that we
>> can't have a contrib module defining a type by that name.  Ergo, rename.
>
> I am afraid, CUBE and ROLLUP have to be a reserved keyword because as
> type_function_name is in conflict with func_name ( ...

They name to be type_func_keywords, perhaps, but not fully reserved.
And they'd still need that treatment anyway. Even if cube(whatever)
can't mean "extract a column called cube from table whatever", it can
still mean "call a function called cube on a column called whatever".

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