Re: Window functions patch v04 for the September commit fest

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 09:35 -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 12:42:45PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 03:14 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > > > On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:42:25AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > >> It's not like we haven't seen a SQL draft go down in flames
> > > >> before.
> > > 
> > > > Do you think that anything in the windowing functions section
> > > > will disappear?
> > > 
> > > Who's to say?
> > > 
> > > I have no objection to looking at the 2003 and 200n documents in
> > > parallel, especially if there are places where 200n clarifies the
> > > intent of 2003.  But I'd be suspicious of designing around
> > > entirely-new features presented by 200n.
> > 
> > I have confirmation from Michael Gorman, Wiscorp, that 
> > 
> > > The new standard was approved in early Summer. SQL 2008 is
> > > finished.
> > 
> > So as of now, SQL2008 exists, all hail. SQL2003 and earlier versions
> > have been superseded and can be ignored.
> 
> Any chance we can buy a few copies of the official one for use on the
> project?

You have to buy them from ISO website I think, but it was $00s when I
looked some years back - we'd probably need a dozen copies at least
since we hardly ever meet. Michael's .pdf was the final version, so we
do actually have the final form even if the page formatting somewhat
different.

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