Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
> > Are you suggesting removing FETCH LAST _and_ MOVE LAST?.
> >>
> >> Yes. Should cursors be positioned on the last row
> >> or EOF by MOVE LAST ? Anyway I see no necessity to use
> >> the standard keyword LAST currently.
> >>
> > I think MOVE LAST works well.
>
> > OK, so we will switch it to MOVE END. That seems OK.
>
> What is good about that??? We already have a nonstandard keyword
> for this functionality: MOVE ALL. There is no reason to invent another
> one.
>
> I tend to agree with Hiroshi that it's a bad idea to add a standard
> keyword to represent not-quite-standard behavior. MOVE ALL is our
> historical spelling for this functionality, and adding MOVE LAST is
> not really bringing anything to the party.
OK.
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