PostgreSQL and the SQL standards process [LWN.net]

PostgreSQL and the SQL standards process

Posted Sep 21, 2011 23:54 UTC (Wed) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
Parent article: PostgreSQL and the SQL standards process

> PostgreSQL's resident standards guru Peter Eisentraut commented in an
> off-list email that, for end users, SQL is "pretty useless as a
> 'standard'" when compared to more complete specifications like C and
> XML. SQL lacks specifications for important features like optimization
> and administration, he said, and worse still, the language itself is
> "baroque," with every new feature adopting a completely new syntax.

To me that would be what an OpenSQL or maybe a W3C SQL would work on.
1) Optimization and administration
2) Redoing of features to use the same syntax.

call it DW; or TRM or some similar acronym but make it something useful. [Of course in the end, a standard is only as useful as those who implement it and use it. ]

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