Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> writes: > I really don't see the value in making a command substantially less > intuitive in order to avoid a single keyword, unless it affects areas of > Postgres outside of this particular command.
It's the three variants to do two things that I find unintuitive. As I mentioned a minute ago, dropping the "abbreviated" syntax and just having BEFORE and AFTER would be a good way of achieving symmetry if you find that important. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers