On 30 March 2017 at 13:11, Peter Moser <pitiz...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2017-03-01 10:56 GMT+01:00 Peter Moser <pitiz...@gmail.com>: >> A similar walkthrough for ALIGN will follow soon. >> >> We are thankful for any suggestion or ideas, to be used to write a >> good SGML documentation. > > The attached README explains the ALIGN operation step-by-step with a > TEMPORAL LEFT OUTER JOIN example. That is, we start from a query > input, show how we rewrite it during parser stage, and show how the > final execution generates result tuples.
Thanks for this contribution. I know what it takes to do significant contributions and I know it can be frustrating when things languish for months. I am starting to look at temporal queries myself so I will begin an interest. PostgreSQL tries really very hard to implement the SQL Standard and just the standard. ISTM that the feedback you should have been given is that this is very interesting but will not be committed in its current form; I am surprised to see nobody has said that, though you can see the truth of that since nobody is actively looking to review or commit this. Obviously if the standard were changed to support these things we'd suddenly be interested... What I think I'm lacking is a clear statement of why we need to have new syntax to solve the problem and why the problem itself is important. PostgreSQL supports the ability to produce Set Returning Functions and various other extensions. Would it be possible to change this so that we don't add new syntax to the parser but rather we do this as a set of functions? An alternative might be for us to implement a pluggable parser, so that you can have an "alternate syntax" plugin. If we did that, you can then maintain the plugin outside of core until the time when SQL Standard is updated and we can implement directly. We already support the ability to invent new plan nodes, so this could be considered as part of the plugin. -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers