Re: ALTER TABLE ADD/DROP INHERITS

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > We should try very hard to avoid adding new reserved words, IMNSHO.
>
> *Especially* ones not sanctioned by the SQL spec.  Reserving a word that
> is not listed as reserved in the standard is really a spec violation,
> because it means that spec-conforming SQL commands may fail.

I expected that but I haven't seen any agreement on a replacement syntax. The
only other one proposed was:

ALTER TABLE foo ALTER INHERITS ADD|DROP bar

and it received no comments. Should I just assume that's the direction to go
if nobody objects?


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greg