Re: Standards URL's

In one of the emails I deleted from my mailbox, the person stated they
are identical,�except in price.

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Here are the URL's for the SQL standards.  Where should these go?  Are
> > they legal?
> 
> > http://www.ansi.org
> > http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/sql/sql1992.txt
> > ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/standards/sql
> > ftp://jerry.ece.umassd.edu/isowg3/x3h2/Standards/
> 
> > ANSI PDF $20
> > ISO  PDF $310
> 
> The document at CMU is a draft version of SQL92, which is legal to
> distribute free AFAIK (at least that's been ISO's practice with other
> draft standards).  The documents at DEC are some intermediate version
> that is probably best ignored.  The documents at umassd are SQL99, and
> not marked as drafts; if they are final text then they might well be
> considered pirate copies by ISO.  But more likely they are late drafts.
> 
> Of course, ANSI will be happy to sell you a certifiably legal copy.
> 
> What I want to know is what's the difference between the "ANSI" and
> "ISO" PDF versions that ANSI sells, other than a factor of 15 in price?
> I sent an email inquiry about that to ANSI a month ago, and have not
> gotten an answer.  Anyone know?
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 


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