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+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/array.sgml,v 1.40 2004/11/27 21:27:05 petere Exp $ -->
<sect1 id="arrays">
<title>Arrays</title>
</para>
<para>
- An alternative, SQL99-standard syntax may be used for one-dimensional arrays.
- <structfield>pay_by_quarter</structfield> could have been defined as:
+ An alternative syntax, which conforms to the SQL:1999 standard, may
+ be used for one-dimensional arrays.
+ <structfield>pay_by_quarter</structfield> could have been defined
+ as:
<programlisting>
pay_by_quarter integer ARRAY[4],
</programlisting>
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<chapter id="datatype">
</para>
<para>
- For <type>timestamp [without time zone]</type>, any explicit time
- zone specified in the input is silently ignored. That is, the
- resulting date/time value is derived from the explicit date/time
+ The <acronym>SQL</acronym> standard differentiates <type>timestamp without time zone</type>
+ and <type>timestamp with time zone</type> literals by the existence of a
+ <quote>+</quote>; or <quote>-</quote>. Hence, according to the standard,
+ <programlisting>TIMESTAMP '2004-10-19 10:23:54'</programlisting>
+ is a <type>timestamp without time zone</type>, while
+ <programlisting>TIMESTAMP '2004-10-19 10:23:54+02'</programlisting>
+ is a <type>timestamp with time zone</type>.
+ <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
+ differs from the standard by requiring that <type>timestamp with time zone</type>
+ literals be explicitly typed:
+ <programlisting>TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE '2004-10-19 10:23:54+02'</programlisting>
+ If a literal is not explicitly indicated as being of <type>timestamp with time zone</type>,
+ PostgreSQL will silently ignore any time zone indication in the literal.
+ That is, the resulting date/time value is derived from the date/time
fields in the input value, and is not adjusted for time zone.
</para>
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<chapter id="ddl">
<title>Data Definition</title>
<para>
In previous versions of <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>, the
default behavior was not to include child tables in queries. This was
- found to be error prone and is also in violation of the SQL99
+ found to be error prone and is also in violation of the SQL:1999
standard. Under the old syntax, to get the sub-tables you append
<literal>*</literal> to the table name.
For example
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/errcodes.sgml,v 1.10 2004/11/15 06:32:13 neilc Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/errcodes.sgml,v 1.11 2004/11/27 21:27:06 petere Exp $ -->
<appendix id="errcodes-appendix">
<title><productname>PostgreSQL</productname> Error Codes</title>
<row>
<entry>Class 02</entry>
-<entry>No Data — this is also a warning class per SQL99</entry>
+<entry>No Data — this is also a warning class per SQL:1999</entry>
</row>
<row>
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<appendix id="features">
<para>
This section attempts to outline to what extent
- <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> conforms to the SQL standard.
- Full compliance to the standard or a complete statement about the
- compliance to the standard is complicated and not particularly
- useful, so this section can only give an overview.
- </para>
+ <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> conforms to the current SQL
+ standard. The following information is not a full statement of
+ conformance, but it presents the main topics in as much detail as is
+ both reasonable and useful for users.
+ </para>
<para>
The formal name of the SQL standard is ISO/IEC 9075 <quote>Database
Language SQL</quote>. A revised version of the standard is released
- from time to time; the most recent one appearing in 1999. That
- version is referred to as ISO/IEC 9075:1999, or informally as SQL99.
- The version prior to that was SQL92.
- <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> development tends to aim for
+ from time to time; the most recent one appearing in late 2003. That
+ version is referred to as ISO/IEC 9075:2003, or simply as SQL:2003.
+ The versions prior to that were SQL:1999 and SQL-92. Each version
+ replaces the previous one, so claims of conformance to earlier
+ versions have no official merit.
+ <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> development aims for
conformance with the latest official version of the standard where
such conformance does not contradict traditional features or common
- sense. At the time of this writing, balloting is under way for a
- new revision of the standard, which, if approved, will eventually
- become the conformance target for future
- <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> development.
+ sense. The PostgreSQL project was not represented in the ISO/IEC
+ 9075 Working Group during the preparation of SQL:2003. Even so,
+ many of the features required by SQL:2003 are already supported,
+ though sometimes with slightly differing syntax or function.
+ Further moves towards conformance may be expected in later releases.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <acronym>SQL-92</acronym> defined three feature sets for
+ conformance: Entry, Intermediate, and Full. Most database
+ management systems claiming <acronym>SQL</acronym> standard
+ conformance were conforming at only the Entry level, since the
+ entire set of features in the Intermediate and Full levels was
+ either too voluminous or in conflict with legacy behaviors.
</para>
<para>
- <acronym>SQL92</acronym> defined three feature sets for conformance:
- Entry, Intermediate, and Full. Most database management systems claiming
- <acronym>SQL</acronym> standard conformance were conforming at only
- the Entry level, since the entire set of features in the
- Intermediate and Full levels was either too voluminous or in
- conflict with legacy behaviors.
+ Starting with <acronym>SQL:1999</acronym>, the SQL standard defines
+ a large set of individual features rather than the ineffectively
+ broad three levels found in <acronym>SQL-92</acronym>. A large
+ subset of these features represents the <quote>Core</quote>
+ features, which every conforming SQL implementation must supply.
+ The rest of the features are purely optional. Some optional
+ features are grouped together to form <quote>packages</quote>, which
+ SQL implementations can claim conformance to, thus claiming
+ conformance to particular groups of features.
</para>
<para>
- <acronym>SQL99</acronym> defines a large set of individual features
- rather than the ineffectively broad three levels found in
- <acronym>SQL92</acronym>. A large subset of these features
- represents the <quote>core</quote> features, which every conforming
- SQL implementation must supply. The rest of the features are purely
- optional. Some optional features are grouped together to form
- <quote>packages</quote>, which SQL implementations can claim
- conformance to, thus claiming conformance to particular groups of
- features.
+ The <acronym>SQL:2003</acronym> standard is also split into a number
+ of parts. Each is known by a shorthand name. Note that these parts
+ are not consecutively numbered.
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>ISO/IEC 9075-1 Framework (<acronym>SQL/Framework</acronym>)</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>ISO/IEC 9075-2 Foundation (<acronym>SQL/Foundation</acronym>)</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>ISO/IEC 9075-3 Call Level Interface (<acronym>SQL/CLI</acronym>)</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>ISO/IEC 9075-4 Persistent Stored Modules (<acronym>SQL/PSM</acronym>)</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>ISO/IEC 9075-9 Management of External Data (<acronym>SQL/MED</acronym>)</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>ISO/IEC 9075-10 Object Language Bindings (<acronym>SQL/OLB</acronym>)</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>ISO/IEC 9075-11 Information and Definition Schemas (<acronym>SQL/Schemata</acronym>)</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>ISO/IEC 9075-13 Routines and Types using the Java Language (<acronym>SQL/JRT</acronym>)</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>ISO/IEC 9075-14 XML-related specifications (<acronym>SQL/XML</acronym>)</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>
- The <acronym>SQL99</acronym> standard is also split into 5 parts:
- Framework, Foundation, Call Level Interface, Persistent Stored
- Modules, and Host Language Bindings.
- <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> only covers parts 1, 2, and 5.
+ <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> covers parts 1, 2, and 11.
Part 3 is similar to the ODBC interface, and part 4 is similar to
the <application>PL/pgSQL</application> programming language, but
- exact conformance is not specifically intended in either case.
+ exact conformance is not specifically intended or verified in either
+ case.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ PostgreSQL supports most of the major features of SQL:2003. Out of
+ 164 mandatory features required for full Core conformance,
+ PostgreSQL conforms to at least 150. In addition, there is a long
+ list of supported optional features. It may be worth noting that at
+ the time of writing, no current version of any database management
+ system claims full conformance to Core SQL:2003.
</para>
<para>
In the following two sections, we provide a list of those features
that <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> supports, followed by a
- list of the features defined in SQL99 which are not yet supported in
- <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>. Both of these lists are
- approximate: There may be minor details that are nonconforming for a
- feature that is listed as supported, and large parts of an
- unsupported feature may in fact be implemented. The main body of
- the documentation always contains the most accurate information
- about what does and does not work.
+ list of the features defined in <acronym>SQL:2003</acronym> which
+ are not yet supported in <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>.
+ Both of these lists are approximate: There may be minor details that
+ are nonconforming for a feature that is listed as supported, and
+ large parts of an unsupported feature may in fact be implemented.
+ The main body of the documentation always contains the most accurate
+ information about what does and does not work.
</para>
<note>
</para>
</note>
- <sect1 id="features-sql99">
+ <sect1 id="features-sql-standard">
<title>Supported Features</title>
<para>
</para>
</sect1>
- <sect1 id="unsupported-features-sql99">
+ <sect1 id="unsupported-features-sql-standard">
<title>Unsupported Features</title>
<para>
- The following features defined in <acronym>SQL99</acronym> are not
+ The following features defined in <acronym>SQL:2003</acronym> are not
implemented in this release of
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname>. In a few cases, equivalent
functionality is available.
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</indexterm>
<para>
- There are three separate approaches to pattern matching provided by
- <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>: the traditional
- <acronym>SQL</acronym>
- <function>LIKE</function> operator, the more recent
- <acronym>SQL99</acronym>
- <function>SIMILAR TO</function> operator, and
- <acronym>POSIX</acronym>-style regular expressions.
+ There are three separate approaches to pattern matching provided
+ by <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>: the traditional
+ <acronym>SQL</acronym> <function>LIKE</function> operator, the
+ more recent <literal>>SIMILAR TO</literal> operator (since
+ SQL:1999), and <acronym>POSIX</acronym>-style regular expressions.
Additionally, a pattern matching function,
<function>substring</function>, is available, using either
- <acronym>SQL99</acronym>-style or POSIX-style regular expressions.
+ <literal>SIMILAR TO</literal>-style or POSIX-style regular
+ expressions.
</para>
<tip>
</sect2>
- <sect2 id="functions-sql99-regexp">
- <title><function>SIMILAR TO</function> and <acronym>SQL99</acronym>
- Regular Expressions</title>
+ <sect2 id="functions-similarto-regexp">
+ <title><function>SIMILAR TO</function> Regular Expressions</title>
- <indexterm zone="functions-sql99-regexp">
+ <indexterm zone="functions-similarto-regexp">
<primary>regular expression</primary>
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</indexterm>
</synopsis>
<para>
- The <function>SIMILAR TO</function> operator returns true or false
- depending on whether its pattern matches the given string. It is
- much like <function>LIKE</function>, except that it interprets the
- pattern using <acronym>SQL99</acronym>'s definition of a regular
- expression.
- <acronym>SQL99</acronym>'s regular expressions are a curious cross
- between <function>LIKE</function> notation and common regular expression
- notation.
+ The <function>SIMILAR TO</function> operator returns true or
+ false depending on whether its pattern matches the given string.
+ It is much like <function>LIKE</function>, except that it
+ interprets the pattern using the SQL standard's definition of a
+ regular expression. SQL regular expressions are a curious cross
+ between <function>LIKE</function> notation and common regular
+ expression notation.
</para>
<para>
<function>substring(<parameter>string</parameter> from
<replaceable>pattern</replaceable> for
<replaceable>escape-character</replaceable>)</function>, provides
- extraction of a substring that matches a <acronym>SQL99</acronym>
+ extraction of a substring that matches an SQL
regular expression pattern. As with <literal>SIMILAR TO</>, the
specified pattern must match to the entire data string, else the
function fails and returns null. To indicate the part of the
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+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/information_schema.sgml,v 1.19 2004/11/27 21:27:06 petere Exp $ -->
<chapter id="information-schema">
<title>The Information Schema</title>
<entry>
The year the standard referenced in
<literal>sql_language_source</literal> was approved; currently
- <literal>1999</>
+ <literal>2003</>
</entry>
</row>
<entry><type>character_data</type></entry>
<entry>
The standard conformance level for the language binding. For
- ISO 9075:1999 this is always <literal>CORE</literal>.
+ ISO 9075:2003 this is always <literal>CORE</literal>.
</entry>
</row>
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<preface id="preface">
<para>
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> is an open-source descendant
- of this original Berkeley code. It supports SQL92, SQL99 and
- SQL2003 and offers many modern features:
+ of this original Berkeley code. It supports a large part of the SQL:2003
+ standard and offers many modern features:
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem>
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+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/keywords.sgml,v 2.15 2004/11/27 21:27:06 petere Exp $ -->
<appendix id="sql-keywords-appendix">
<title><acronym>SQL</acronym> Key Words</title>
<row>
<entry>Key Word</entry>
<entry><productname>PostgreSQL</productname></entry>
- <entry><acronym>SQL</acronym> 2003</entry>
- <entry><acronym>SQL</acronym> 1999</entry>
- <entry><acronym>SQL</acronym> 1992</entry>
+ <entry>SQL:2003</entry>
+ <entry>SQL:1999</entry>
+ <entry>SQL-92</entry>
</row>
</thead>
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<title>Compatibility</title>
<para>
- The <command>ALTER DOMAIN</command> statement is compatible with SQL99,
+ The <command>ALTER DOMAIN</command> statement is compatible with SQL:1999,
except for the <literal>OWNER</> variant, which is a
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> extension.
</para>
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<refsect1>
- <title>
- Compatibility
- </title>
+ <title>Compatibility</title>
- <refsect2>
- <title>
- SQL99
- </title>
-
- <para>
- <command>ALTER SEQUENCE</command> is a <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
- language extension.
- There is no <command>ALTER SEQUENCE</command> statement
- in <acronym>SQL99</acronym>.
- </para>
- </refsect2>
+ <para>
+ <command>ALTER SEQUENCE</command> conforms with <acronym>SQL:2003</acronym>.
+ </para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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<refentry id="SQL-CREATECAST">
<refmeta>
<title>Compatibility</title>
<para>
- The <command>CREATE CAST</command> command conforms to SQL99,
- except that SQL99 does not make provisions for binary-compatible
+ The <command>CREATE CAST</command> command conforms to SQL:1999,
+ except that SQL:1999 does not make provisions for binary-compatible
types or extra arguments to implementation functions.
<literal>AS IMPLICIT</> is a <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
extension, too.
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<refentry id="SQL-CREATEFUNCTION">
<title>Compatibility</title>
<para>
- A <command>CREATE FUNCTION</command> command is defined in SQL99.
+ A <command>CREATE FUNCTION</command> command is defined in SQL:1999 and later.
The <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> version is similar but
not fully compatible. The attributes are not portable, neither are the
different available languages.
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<title>Compatibility</title>
<para>
- <command>CREATE SEQUENCE</command> is a
- <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> language extension. There is
- no <command>CREATE SEQUENCE</command> statement in the SQL
- standard.
+ <command>CREATE SEQUENCE</command> is is specified in <acronym>SQL:2003</acronym>.
+ <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> conforms with the standard, with the following exceptions:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>The standard's <literal>AS <data type></literal> expression is not supported.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Obtaining the next value is done using the <function>nextval()</> function instead of the standard's <command>NEXT VALUE FOR</command> expression.</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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<title id="SQL-CREATETABLE-compatibility-title">Compatibility</title>
<para>
- The <command>CREATE TABLE</command> command conforms to SQL92
- and to a subset of SQL99, with exceptions listed below.
+ The <command>CREATE TABLE</command> command conforms to SQL-92 and
+ to a subset of SQL:1999, with exceptions listed below.
</para>
<refsect2>
<para>
Multiple inheritance via the <literal>INHERITS</literal> clause is
- a <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> language extension. SQL99
- (but not SQL92) defines single inheritance using a different
- syntax and different semantics. SQL99-style inheritance is not
- yet supported by <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>.
+ a <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> language extension.
+ SQL:1999 (but not SQL-92) defines single inheritance using a
+ different syntax and different semantics. SQL:1999-style
+ inheritance is not yet supported by
+ <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>.
</para>
</refsect2>
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<title>Compatibility</title>
<para>
- <command>CREATE TABLE AS</command> is specified by the SQL2003
+ <command>CREATE TABLE AS</command> is specified by the SQL:2003
standard. There are some small differences between the definition
- of the command in SQL2003 and its implementation in
+ of the command in SQL:2003 and its implementation in
<productname>PostgreSQL</>:
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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<para>
The <command>CREATE TRIGGER</command> statement in
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> implements a subset of the
- SQL99 standard. (There are no provisions for triggers in SQL92.)
+ SQL:1999 standard. (There are no provisions for triggers in SQL-92.)
The following functionality is missing:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- SQL99 allows triggers to fire on updates to specific columns
+ SQL:1999 allows triggers to fire on updates to specific columns
(e.g., <literal>AFTER UPDATE OF col1, col2</literal>).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- SQL99 allows you to define aliases for the <quote>old</quote>
+ SQL:1999 allows you to define aliases for the <quote>old</quote>
and <quote>new</quote> rows or tables for use in the definition
of the triggered action (e.g., <literal>CREATE TRIGGER ... ON
tablename REFERENCING OLD ROW AS somename NEW ROW AS othername
<listitem>
<para>
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> only allows the execution
- of a user-defined function for the triggered action. SQL99
+ of a user-defined function for the triggered action. SQL:1999
allows the execution of a number of other SQL commands, such as
<command>CREATE TABLE</command> as triggered action. This
limitation is not hard to work around by creating a user-defined
</para>
<para>
- SQL99 specifies that multiple triggers should be fired in
+ SQL:1999 specifies that multiple triggers should be fired in
time-of-creation order. <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> uses
name order, which was judged more convenient to work with.
</para>
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<para>
This <command>CREATE TYPE</command> command is a
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> extension. There is a
- <command>CREATE TYPE</command> statement in SQL99 that is rather
+ <command>CREATE TYPE</command> statement in SQL:1999 and later that is rather
different in detail.
</para>
</refsect1>
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<title>Compatibility</title>
<para>
- There is no <command>DROP SEQUENCE</command> statement in the SQL standard.
+ <command>DROP SEQUENCE</command> conforms with <acronym>SQL:2003</acronym>.
</para>
</refsect1>
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<title>Compatibility</title>
<para>
- The SQL2003 standard specifies that the keyword
- <literal>SAVEPOINT</literal> is mandatory.
- <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> allows the
- <literal>SAVEPOINT</literal> keyword to be omitted. Otherwise, this
- command is fully conforming.
+ This command conforms to the SQL:2003 standard. The standard
+ specifies that the key word <literal>SAVEPOINT</literal> is
+ mandatory, but <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> allows it to
+ be omitted.
</para>
</refsect1>
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<title>Compatibility</title>
<para>
- The SQL2003 standard specifies that the keyword
- <literal>SAVEPOINT</> is mandatory. <productname>PostgreSQL</> and
- <productname>Oracle</> allow the <literal>SAVEPOINT</literal>
- keyword to be omitted. SQL2003 allows only <literal>WORK</>, not
- <literal>TRANSACTION</>, as a noise word after
- <literal>ROLLBACK</>. Also, SQL2003 has an optional clause
+ The SQL:2003 standard specifies that the key word
+ <literal>SAVEPOINT</> is mandatory, but <productname>PostgreSQL</>
+ and <productname>Oracle</> allow it to be omitted. SQL:2003 allows
+ only <literal>WORK</>, not <literal>TRANSACTION</>, as a noise word
+ after <literal>ROLLBACK</>. Also, SQL:2003 has an optional clause
<literal>AND [ NO ] CHAIN</> which is not currently supported by
- <productname>PostgreSQL</>. Otherwise, this command is fully
- conforming.
+ <productname>PostgreSQL</>. Otherwise, this command conforms to
+ the SQL standard.
</para>
</refsect1>
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<title>Namespace Available to <literal>GROUP BY</literal> and <literal>ORDER BY</literal></title>
<para>
- In the SQL92 standard, an <literal>ORDER BY</literal> clause may
+ In the SQL-92 standard, an <literal>ORDER BY</literal> clause may
only use result column names or numbers, while a <literal>GROUP
BY</literal> clause may only use expressions based on input column
names. <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> extends each of
</para>
<para>
- SQL99 uses a slightly different definition which is not entirely upward
+ SQL:1999 uses a slightly different definition which is not entirely upward
compatible
- with SQL92. In most cases, however, <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
+ with SQL
-92. In most cases, however, <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
will interpret an <literal>ORDER BY</literal> or <literal>GROUP
- BY</literal> expression the same way SQL99 does.
+ BY</literal> expression the same way SQL:1999 does.
</para>
</refsect2>
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<appendix id="release">
Change <function>ln()</>, <function>log()</>,
<function>power()</>, and <function>sqrt()</> to emit the correct
<literal>SQLSTATE</> error codes for certain error conditions, as
- specified by SQL2003 (Neil)
+ specified by SQL:2003 (Neil)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Add <function>width_bucket()</> function as defined by SQL2003 (Neil)
+ Add <function>width_bucket()</> function as defined by SQL:2003 (Neil)
</para>
</listitem>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>Make <command>CREATE SEQUENCE</command> grammar more conforming to SQL 2003 (Neil)</para>
+ <para>Make <command>CREATE SEQUENCE</command> grammar more conforming to SQL:2003 (Neil)</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow copying table schema using <literal>LIKE
- <replaceable>subtable</replaceable></literal>, also SQL 2003
+ <replaceable>subtable</replaceable></literal>, also SQL:2003
feature <literal>INCLUDING DEFAULTS</literal> (Rod)
</para>
</listitem>
*
* Copyright 2003, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
*
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/catalog/information_schema.sql,v 1.24 2004/06/22 22:30:32 tgl Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/catalog/information_schema.sql,v 1.25 2004/11/27 21:27:08 petere Exp $
*/
/*
sql_language_programming_language character_data
) WITHOUT OIDS;
-INSERT INTO sql_languages VALUES ('ISO 9075', '1999', 'CORE', NULL, NULL, 'DIRECT', NULL);
-INSERT INTO sql_languages VALUES ('ISO 9075', '1999', 'CORE', NULL, NULL, 'EMBEDDED', 'C');
+INSERT INTO sql_languages VALUES ('ISO 9075', '2003', 'CORE', NULL, NULL, 'DIRECT', NULL);
+INSERT INTO sql_languages VALUES ('ISO 9075', '2003', 'CORE', NULL, NULL, 'EMBEDDED', 'C');
GRANT SELECT ON sql_languages TO PUBLIC;
INSERT INTO sql_packages VALUES ('PKG006', 'Basic object support', 'NO', NULL, '');
INSERT INTO sql_packages VALUES ('PKG007', 'Enhanced object support', 'NO', NULL, '');
INSERT INTO sql_packages VALUES ('PKG008', 'Active database', 'NO', NULL, '');
-INSERT INTO sql_packages VALUES ('PKG009', 'SQL/MM support', 'NO', NULL, '');
+INSERT INTO sql_packages VALUES ('PKG010', 'OLAP', 'NO', NULL, 'NO');
GRANT SELECT ON sql_packages TO PUBLIC;
F812 Core
S011 Core
S023 Basic object support
-S023 SQL/MM support
S024 Enhanced object support
-S024 SQL/MM support
S041 Basic object support
S043 Enhanced object support
S051 Basic object support
S071 Enhanced object support
S081 Enhanced object support
-S091 SQL/MM support
-S092 SQL/MM support
S111 Enhanced object support
S151 Basic object support
S161 Enhanced object support
S211 Enhanced object support
-S211 SQL/MM support
S231 Enhanced object support
S241 Enhanced object support
T041 Basic object support
T212 Enhanced integrity management
T321 Core
T322 PSM
-T322 SQL/MM support
T431 OLAP facilities
B021 Direct SQL YES
B031 Basic dynamic SQL NO
B032 Extended dynamic SQL NO
-B032 Extended dynamic SQL 01 <describe input> statement NO
+B032 Extended dynamic SQL 01 <describe input statement> NO
+B033 Untyped SQL-invoked function arguments NO
+B034 Dynamic specification of cursor attributes NO
B041 Extensions to embedded SQL exception declarations NO
B051 Enhanced execution rights NO
+B111 Module language Ada NO
+B112 Module language C NO
+B113 Module language COBOL NO
+B114 Module language Fortran NO
+B115 Module language MUMPS NO
+B116 Module language Pascal NO
+B117 Module language PL/I NO
+B121 Routine language Ada NO
+B122 Routine language C NO
+B123 Routine language COBOL NO
+B124 Routine language Fortran NO
+B125 Routine language MUMPS NO
+B126 Routine language Pascal NO
+B127 Routine language PL/I NO
+B128 Routine language SQL NO
E011 Numeric data types YES
E011 Numeric data types 01 INTEGER and SMALLINT data types YES
E011 Numeric data types 02 REAL, DOUBLE PRECISION, and FLOAT data types YES
E011 Numeric data types 05 Numeric comparison YES
E011 Numeric data types 06 Implicit casting among the numeric data types YES
E021 Character data types YES
-E021 Character data types 01 CHARACTER data type YES
-E021 Character data types 02 CHARACTER VARYING data type YES
-E021 Character data types 03 Character literals YES
-E021 Character data types 04 CHARACTER_LENGTH function YES
-E021 Character data types 05 OCTET_LENGTH function YES
-E021 Character data types 06 SUBSTRING function YES
-E021 Character data types 07 Character concatenation YES
-E021 Character data types 08 UPPER and LOWER functions YES
-E021 Character data types 09 TRIM function YES
-E021 Character data types 10 Implicit casting among the character data types YES
-E021 Character data types 11 POSITION function YES
-E021 Character data types 12 Character comparison YES
+E021 Character string types 01 CHARACTER data type YES
+E021 Character string types 02 CHARACTER VARYING data type YES
+E021 Character string types 03 Character literals YES
+E021 Character string types 04 CHARACTER_LENGTH function YES trims trailing spaces from CHARACTER values before counting
+E021 Character string types 05 OCTET_LENGTH function YES
+E021 Character string types 06 SUBSTRING function YES
+E021 Character string types 07 Character concatenation YES
+E021 Character string types 08 UPPER and LOWER functions YES
+E021 Character string types 09 TRIM function YES
+E021 Character string types 10 Implicit casting among the character string types YES
+E021 Character string types 11 POSITION function YES
+E021 Character string types 12 Character comparison YES
E031 Identifiers YES
E031 Identifiers 01 Delimited identifiers YES
E031 Identifiers 02 Lower case identifiers YES
E081 Basic Privileges 06 REFERENCES privilege at the table level YES
E081 Basic Privileges 07 REFERENCES privilege at the column level NO
E081 Basic Privileges 08 WITH GRANT OPTION YES
+E081 Basic Privileges 09 USAGE privilege NO
+E081 Basic Privileges 10 EXECUTE privilege YES
E091 Set functions YES
E091 Set functions 01 AVG YES
E091 Set functions 02 COUNT YES
E101 Basic data manipulation 04 Searched DELETE statement YES
E111 Single row SELECT statement YES
E121 Basic cursor support NO
-E121 Basic cursor supoprt 01 DECLARE CURSOR YES
+E121 Basic cursor support 01 DECLARE CURSOR YES
E121 Basic cursor support 02 ORDER BY columns need not be in select list YES
E121 Basic cursor support 03 Value expressions in ORDER BY clause YES
E121 Basic cursor support 04 OPEN statement YES
F051 Basic date and time 02 TIME data type (including support of TIME literal) with fractional seconds precision of at least 0 YES
F051 Basic date and time 03 TIMESTAMP data type (including support of TIMESTAMP literal) with fractional seconds precision of at least 0 and 6 YES
F051 Basic date and time 04 Comparison predicate on DATE, TIME, and TIMESTAMP data types YES
-F051 Basic date and time 05 Explicit CAST between datetime types and character types YES
+F051 Basic date and time 05 Explicit CAST between datetime types and character string types YES
F051 Basic date and time 06 CURRENT_DATE YES
F051 Basic date and time 07 LOCALTIME YES
F051 Basic date and time 08 LOCALTIMESTAMP YES
F052 Intervals and datetime arithmetic YES
+F053 OVERLAPS predicate YES
F081 UNION and EXCEPT in views YES
F111 Isolation levels other than SERIALIZABLE YES
-F111 Isolation levels other than SERIALIZABLE 01 READ UNCOMMITTED isolation level YES behaves like READ COMMITTED
+F111 Isolation levels other than SERIALIZABLE 01 READ UNCOMMITTED isolation level YES
F111 Isolation levels other than SERIALIZABLE 02 READ COMMITTED isolation level YES
-F111 Isolation levels other than SERIALIZABLE 03 REPEATABLE READ isolation level YES behaves like SERIALIZABLE
+F111 Isolation levels other than SERIALIZABLE 03 REPEATABLE READ isolation level YES
F121 Basic diagnostics management NO
F121 Basic diagnostics management 01 GET DIAGNOSTICS statement NO
F121 Basic diagnostics management 02 SET TRANSACTION statement: DIAGNOSTICS SIZE clause NO
F201 CAST function YES
F221 Explicit defaults YES
F222 INSERT statement: DEFAULT VALUES clause YES
-F231 Privilege Tables YES
-F231 Privilege Tables 01 TABLE_PRIVILEGES view YES
-F231 Privilege Tables 02 COLUMN_PRIVILEGES view YES
-F231 Privilege Tables 03 USAGE_PRIVILEGES view YES
+F231 Privilege tables YES
+F231 Privilege tables 01 TABLE_PRIVILEGES view YES
+F231 Privilege tables 02 COLUMN_PRIVILEGES view YES
+F231 Privilege tables 03 USAGE_PRIVILEGES view YES
F251 Domain support YES
F261 CASE expression YES
F261 CASE expression 01 Simple CASE YES
F261 CASE expression 02 Searched CASE YES
F261 CASE expression 03 NULLIF YES
F261 CASE expression 04 COALESCE YES
+F262 Extended CASE expression NO
+F263 Comma-separated predicates in simple CASE expression NO
F271 Compound character literals YES
F281 LIKE enhancements YES
F291 UNIQUE predicate NO
F311 Schema definition statement 03 CREATE VIEW YES
F311 Schema definition statement 04 CREATE VIEW: WITH CHECK OPTION NO
F311 Schema definition statement 05 GRANT statement YES
+F312 MERGE statement NO
F321 User authorization YES
F341 Usage tables NO
F361 Subprogram support YES
F381 Extended schema manipulation 02 ALTER TABLE statement: ADD CONSTRAINT clause YES
F381 Extended schema manipulation 03 ALTER TABLE statement: DROP CONSTRAINT clause YES
F391 Long identifiers YES
+F392 Unicode escapes in identifiers NO
+F393 Unicode escapes in literals NO
F401 Extended joined table YES
F401 Extended joined table 01 NATURAL JOIN YES
F401 Extended joined table 02 FULL OUTER JOIN YES
-F401 Extended joined table 03 UNION JOIN YES
F401 Extended joined table 04 CROSS JOIN YES
-F411 Time zone specification YES
+F402 Named column joins for LOBs, arrays, and multisets NO
+F411 Time zone specification YES differences regarding literal interpretation
F421 National character YES
F431 Read-only scrollable cursors YES
F431 Read-only scrollable cursors 01 FETCH with explicit NEXT YES
F431 Read-only scrollable cursors 05 FETCH ABSOLUTE YES
F431 Read-only scrollable cursors 06 FETCH RELATIVE YES
F441 Extended set function support YES
+F442 Mixed column references in set functions NO
F451 Character set definition NO
F461 Named character sets NO
F471 Scalar subquery values YES
F502 Enhanced documentation tables 01 SQL_SIZING_PROFILES view YES
F502 Enhanced documentation tables 02 SQL_IMPLEMENTATION_INFO view YES
F502 Enhanced documentation tables 03 SQL_PACKAGES view YES
-F511 BIT data type YES
F521 Assertions NO
F531 Temporary tables YES
F555 Enhanced seconds precision YES
F651 Catalog name qualifiers YES
F661 Simple tables NO
F671 Subqueries in CHECK NO intentionally omitted
+F672 Retrospective check constraints YES
F691 Collation and translation NO
+F692 Enhanced collation support NO
+F693 SQL-session and client module collations NO
+F695 Translation support NO
+F696 Additional translation documentation NO
F701 Referential update actions YES
F711 ALTER domain YES
F721 Deferrable constraints NO foreign keys only
F801 Full set function YES
F811 Extended flagging NO
F812 Basic flagging NO
-F813 Extended flagging for "Core SQL Flagging" and "Catalog Lookup" only NO
+F813 Extended flagging NO
F821 Local table references NO
F831 Full cursor update NO
F831 Full cursor update 01 Updatable scrollable cursors NO
S011 Distinct data types 01 USER_DEFINED_TYPES view NO
S023 Basic structured types NO
S024 Enhanced structured types NO
+S025 Final structured types NO
+S026 Self-referencing structured types NO
+S027 Create method by specific method name NO
+S028 Permutable UDT options list NO
S041 Basic reference types NO
S043 Enhanced reference types NO
S051 Create table of type NO
S091 Basic array support 03 Array expressions NO
S092 Arrays of user-defined types NO
S094 Arrays of reference types NO
+S095 Array constructors by query NO
+S096 Optional array bounds NO
+S097 Array element assignment NO
S111 ONLY in query expressions YES
S151 Type predicate NO
S161 Subtype treatment NO
-S201 SQL routines on arrays NO
-S201 SQL routines on arrays 01 Array parameters NO
-S201 SQL routines on arrays 02 Array as result type of functions NO
+S162 Subtype treatment for references NO
+S201 SQL-invoked routines on arrays NO
+S201 SQL-invoked routines on arrays 01 Array parameters NO
+S201 SQL-invoked routines on arrays 02 Array as result type of functions NO
+S202 SQL-invoked routines on multisets NO
S211 User-defined cast functions YES
S231 Structured type locators NO
S232 Array locators NO
+S233 Multiset locators NO
S241 Transform functions NO
+S242 Alter transform statement NO
S251 User-defined orderings NO
S261 Specific type method NO
+S271 Basic multiset support NO
+S272 Multisets of user-defined types NO
+S274 Multisets of reference types NO
+S275 Advanced multiset support NO
+S281 Nested collection types NO
+S291 Unique constraint on entire row NO
T011 Timestamp in Information Schema NO
T031 BOOLEAN data type YES
T041 Basic LOB data type support NO
T041 Basic LOB data type support 05 LOB locator: non-holdable NO
T042 Extended LOB data type support NO
T051 Row types NO
+T052 MAX and MIN for row types NO
+T053 Explicit aliases for all-fields reference NO
+T061 UCS support NO
+T071 BIGINT data type YES
T111 Updatable joins, unions, and columns NO
T121 WITH (excluding RECURSIVE) in query expression NO
+T122 WITH (excluding RECURSIVE) in subquery NO
T131 Recursive query NO
+T132 Recursive query in subquery NO
T141 SIMILAR predicate YES
T151 DISTINCT predicate YES
+T152 DISTINCT predicate with negation NO
T171 LIKE clause in table definition YES
+T172 AS subquery clause in table definition NO
+T173 Extended LIKE clause in table definition NO
+T174 Identity columns NO
+T175 Generated columns NO
+T176 Sequence generator support NO
T191 Referential action RESTRICT YES
T201 Comparable data types for referential constraints YES
T211 Basic trigger capability NO
T211 Basic trigger capability 05 Ability to specify a search condition that must be true before the trigger is invoked NO
T211 Basic trigger capability 06 Support for run-time rules for the interaction of triggers and constraints NO
T211 Basic trigger capability 07 TRIGGER privilege YES
-T211 Basic trigger capability 08 Multiple triggers for the same event are executed in the order in which they were created NO intentionally omitted
+T211 Basic trigger capability 08 Multiple triggers for the same event are executed in the order in which they were created in the catalog NO intentionally omitted
T212 Enhanced trigger capability YES
-T231 SENSITIVE cursors YES
+T231 Sensitive cursors YES
T241 START TRANSACTION statement YES
T251 SET TRANSACTION statement: LOCAL option NO
T261 Chained transactions NO
T271 Savepoints YES
+T272 Enhanced savepoint management NO
T281 SELECT privilege with column granularity NO
-T301 Functional Dependencies NO
+T301 Functional dependencies NO
T312 OVERLAY function YES
T321 Basic SQL-invoked routines NO
T321 Basic SQL-invoked routines 01 User-defined functions with no overloading YES
T321 Basic SQL-invoked routines 07 PARAMETERS view YES
T322 Overloading of SQL-invoked functions and procedures YES
T323 Explicit security for external routines YES
+T324 Explicit security for SQL routines NO
+T325 Qualified SQL parameter references NO
+T326 Table functions NO
T331 Basic roles NO
T332 Extended roles NO
T351 Bracketed SQL comments (/*...*/ comments) YES
T401 INSERT into a cursor NO
T411 UPDATE statement: SET ROW option NO
-T431 CUBE and ROLLUP operations NO
+T431 Extended grouping capabilities NO
+T432 Nested and concatenated GROUPING SETS NO
+T433 Multiargument GROUPING function NO
+T434 GROUP BY DISINCT NO
T441 ABS and MOD functions YES
T461 Symmetric BETWEEN predicate NO
T471 Result sets return value NO
T551 Optional key words for default syntax YES
T561 Holdable locators NO
T571 Array-returning external SQL-invoked functions NO
+T572 Multiset-returning external SQL-invoked functions NO
T581 Regular expression substring function YES
T591 UNIQUE constraints of possibly null columns YES
T601 Local cursor references NO
+T611 Elementary OLAP operations NO
+T612 Advanced OLAP operations NO
+T613 Sampling NO
+T621 Enhanced numeric functions NO
+T631 IN predicate with one list element NO
+T641 Multiple column assignment NO
+T651 SQL-schema statements in SQL routines NO
+T652 SQL-dynamic statements in SQL routines NO
+T653 SQL-schema statements in external routines NO
+T654 SQL-dynamic statements in external routines NO
+T655 Cyclically dependent routines NO
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