Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: > You can still double-quote reserved words and use them in general. What > we're talking about here are cases where a word can't be used even if > it's double-quoted, and we try really hard to keep those cases at an > absolute minimum. We should also really be keeping a list of those > cases somewhere, now that I think about it..
It is very important that a quoted identifier not be treated as a keyword. I would be very interested in seeing that list, and in ensuring that it doesn't get any longer. > I agree that we should probably seperate the concerns here. Personally, > I like the idea of being able to say "CURRENT_USER" in utility commands > to refer to the current user where a role would normally be expected, as > I could see it simplifying things for some applications, but that's a > new feature and independent of making role-vs-user cases more > consistent. Yeah, let's not mix those in the same patch. -- Kevin Grittner EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
