There is a huge difference between adhering to a standard and limiting yourself to a standard. The real question is whether PostgreSQL's goal is to support SQL standards, or whether PostgreSQL's goal is to give PostgreSQL users a useful set of tools.
There are literally _hundreds_ of fields we could add to the information_schema. Either we add them all or we add none of them.
Chris
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