Kirill Reshke <reshkekir...@gmail.com> writes: > 3) Why do we delete this in `create_schema.sgml`? Is this untrue? It > is about order of definition, not creation, isn't it?
>> - The SQL standard specifies that the subcommands in <command>CREATE >> - SCHEMA</command> can appear in any order. In context with the following sentence, what that is really trying to say is that the spec requires us to re-order the subcommands to eliminate forward references. After studying the text I cannot find any such statement. Maybe I missed something --- there's a lot of text --- but it's sure not to be detected in any obvious place like 11.1 <schema definition>. (I'd be curious to know how other major implementations handle this. Are we the only implementation that ever read the spec that way?) regards, tom lane