Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2018-Jun-10, Tom Lane wrote:
>> (wanders away wondering exactly what parsing technology the SQL committee
>> thinks implementations use...)
> Umm, doesn't this come from our decision to make the AS optional there?
No, it was THEIR decision to make AS optional. I'd like to think that
we'd never have done anything so stupid if we were designing the syntax.
regards, tom lane