On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 23:46 +0000, Josh Kupershmidt wrote:
> SELECT * FROM mytab WHERE mycol = 2OR true;
Is that inconsistent with the standard?
Other languages seem to allow similar things, such as ruby and perl. For
instance, in ruby:
puts 1if(true)
seems to be acceptable.
> although some cases produce an error, as I would expect, such as:
> SELECT * FROM mytab WHERE mycol = 2::intOR true;
That's not the same. In that example, there's no hope of distinguishing
the identifier "int" from the keyword "OR".
> I think it would be more consistent to raise syntax errors in all these
> cases.
I don't really see a "bug" here. Is this causing you some kind of
problem?
Regards,
Jeff Davis
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