Grzegorz Jaskiewicz wrote:
>
> On 31 Jan 2009, at 17:22, David Fetter wrote:
>>
>> Is this part of the SQL:2008? If not, is there something else that
>> is?
>
> As far as I can see in the 'free' draft, no. Which is quite funny, cos
> 'DATABASE' keyword isn't there too..
> Anyway. Looks like m$'s sybase clone got it, so I figure - at least
> some ppl figured it would be a nice feature ;)
The standard doesn't have the concept of a database. In Postgres, a
database is essentially the same as the standard's concept of a catalog.
cheers
andrew