Re: Why can't you define a table alias on an update?

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:42:21AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net> writes:
> > Would it be reasonable to have a setting that enabled/disabled this?
>
> No, unless you want to have two complete bison parsers in there.  AFAIK
> there's no good way to alter the reserved-word status of a keyword on
> the fly.  So either we do it, or not.

Is a startup option considered 'on-the-fly' too?

Backwards compatibility is always so much fun...
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