Re: [HACKERS] Add hint for function named "is"

2018-04-30 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 2:14 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Not *nearly* as much as I'd object to mostly-breaking postfix operators. > Now admittedly, if the Berkeley guys had never put those in, nobody > would miss them. But they're there, and I'm afraid that users are > likely depending on them. Neithe

Re: [HACKERS] Add hint for function named "is"

2018-04-30 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > I think there would be a lot of value in coming up with some kind of > incremental improvement here; this is a common annoyance for users > migrating from other database systems (and one in particular). Agreed, but ... > Technically, that doesn't look hard to do: (1) remove

Re: [HACKERS] Add hint for function named "is"

2018-04-30 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > It's likely that by rejiggering the precedence of productions, we could > resolve these ambiguities in favor of "it's not a ColLabel if it appears > in a context like this". And probably that wouldn't be too surprising > most of the time. But de