Re: [SQL] Re: [HACKERS] Proposed Changes to PostgreSQL

Chris wrote:
> 
> Hannu Krosing wrote:
> 
> > I think the operative word here is "available". I know that SQL specs
> > are'nt freely available either, but due to SQL being already widely
> > supported one can get the general idea from many freely available sources,
> > like the bunch of freely downloadable DB's currently available for linux.
> > Most of them have some docs included.
> >
> > It is still quite a job to reconstruct SQL92 from them ;)
> >
> > I know now description (except a BNF syntax available from some ODBMS website)
> > that I could use to get some idea about OQL.
> 
> Poet at http://www.poet.com have their doco online including OQL.
> 

Thanks, I'll check that.

Btw, has anyone compared PostgreSQL's object features with SQL3 (draft)
features.

For example they seem to use UNDER instead of INHERITS and no parentheses.

They also have a special privilege also called UNDER for being able to define 
a subtype (as they call it). A lot of other features seem to be considered too
-
no wonder it is 2.3 MB text file.

available at:

ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/standards/sql/

or

http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/standards/sql/

the main file is sql-foundation-aug94.txt

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Hannu