On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Greg Stark <gsst...@mit.edu> writes:
>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> If there were more than a single member of the class, I might think
>>> it was worth the trouble ...
>
>> A quick glace at the list shows relatively few that actually need to
>> be barred from columns. I could easily see people wanting to use
>> columns named LEFT and RIGHT or VERBOSE.  I suppose they've been there
>> for a long time already though.
>
> Hm.  I do not believe it'd work for LEFT/RIGHT because of join condition
> syntax, but it might for ANALYZE, FREEZE, and VERBOSE; which would
> actually amount to a pretty significant percentage of our
> totally-outside-any-spec reserved words.
>
> I'm still not really eager to introduce yet another category of
> keywords, but perhaps it is worth doing.  Comments?

I'm about to get on a plane, but just to make you hurl here's another
half-assed approach.

...Robert

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