Somehow I missed it, but a new version of the SQL standard was released in December 2016. Here is wikipedia’s description of the new features:
> SQL:2016 introduced 44 new optional features. 22 of them belong > to the JSON functionality, ten more are related to polymorphic table > functions. The additions to the standard include: > > * JSON: Functions to create JSON documents, to access parts of > JSON documents and to check whether a string contains valid > JSON data > * Row Pattern Recognition: Matching a sequence of rows against > a regular expression pattern > * Date and time formatting and parsing > * LISTAGG: A function to transform values from a group of rows into a > delimited string > * Polymorphic table functions: table functions without predefined return type > * New data type DECFLOAT Nothing earth-shattering, but some good stuff there. DECFLOAT makes a lot of sense — businesses hate the kind of rounding errors that binary floating point introduces, and DECFLOAT would seem to map directly to java’s BigDecimal. And MATCH_RECOGNIZE, which we have already started work on. Julian