Re: Where to get official SQL spec (was Re: Domain Support)

It would be nice to add it to the docs of the project.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
Cc: "Rod Taylor" <rbt@zort.ca>; "Hackers List"
<pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Where to get official SQL spec (was Re: Domain
Support)


> "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> > I seem to have parts 1-5 .txt of sql99 on my computer here.  I ftp'd
them
> > off some ftp site yonks ago.  Anyone want them?  Is it legal for me to
have
> > them or distribute them?
>
> My understanding of the legal situation is that what's circulating
> around the net in plain text form is *draft* versions of the spec.
> It is okay to redistribute these freely.  The *official* version
> you are supposed to pay for.
>
> No, I don't know how close the drafts really are to the final.
>
> Personally I tend to consult the draft versions more than the PDF
> versions anyway, because it's vastly easier to search flat ASCII
> files than PDFs ... so I sure hope they're pretty close ...
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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