On fre, 2011-09-16 at 07:38 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> So, generally speaking, what kinds of things are going to be brought
> up at the ISO meeting? Is this an opportunity to get postgres special
> syntax drafted into the sql standard?
Don't expect to take a PostgreSQL-specific feature, say, CREATE RULE or
CREATE AGGREGATE, and make it into an ISO standard. The "big boys"
still run the show, and it's unlikely that something gets accepted
without buy in from one of the major proprietary vendors. Besides,
writing actual standards is difficult and time-consuming work. But what
you can accomplish is to mold upcoming features so that they don't clash
with PostgreSQL, or better yet benefit PostgreSQL. Also, you can mold
future PostgreSQL features in the converse way.