Re: [HACKERS] Add support to COMMENT ON CURRENT DATABASE

On Mon, Jan  9, 2017 at 01:34:03PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Peter Eisentraut
> <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > On 1/3/17 11:52 PM, Ashutosh Bapat wrote:
> >> We will need to make CURRENT_DATABASE a reserved keyword. But I like
> >> this idea more than COMMENT ON CURRENT DATABASE.
> >
> > We already have the reserved key word CURRENT_CATALOG, which is the
> > standard spelling.  But I wouldn't be bothered if we made
> > CURRENT_DATABASE somewhat reserved as well.
> 
> Maybe I'm just lacking in imagination, but what's the argument against
> spelling it CURRENT DATABASE?  AFAICS, that doesn't require reserving
> anything new at all, and it also looks more SQL-ish to me.  SQL
> generally tries to emulate English, and I don't normally
> speak_hyphenated_words.

I assume it is to match our use of CURRENT_USER as having special
meaning.

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