Alias to rollback keyword

Started by Matthew Altusalmost 16 years ago6 messages
#1Matthew Altus
maltus@internode.com.au
1 attachment(s)

Hey,

After dealing with a production fault and having to rollback all the time, I
kept typing a different word instead of rollback. So I created a patch to
accept this word as an alias for rollback. Obviously it's not part of the sql
standard, but could be a nice extension for postgresql. See the patch for
more details.

Cheers
Matt

Attachments:

pgsql_rollback.patchtext/x-patch; charset=ISO-8859-1; name=pgsql_rollback.patchDownload
diff -U5 -r postgresql-8.4.2.orig/src/include/parser/kwlist.h postgresql-8.4.2/src/include/parser/kwlist.h
--- postgresql-8.4.2.orig/src/include/parser/kwlist.h	2009-04-06 18:12:53.000000000 +0930
+++ postgresql-8.4.2/src/include/parser/kwlist.h	2010-04-01 10:55:46.000000000 +1030
@@ -55,10 +55,11 @@
 PG_KEYWORD("begin", BEGIN_P, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD)
 PG_KEYWORD("between", BETWEEN, TYPE_FUNC_NAME_KEYWORD)
 PG_KEYWORD("bigint", BIGINT, COL_NAME_KEYWORD)
 PG_KEYWORD("binary", BINARY, TYPE_FUNC_NAME_KEYWORD)
 PG_KEYWORD("bit", BIT, COL_NAME_KEYWORD)
+PG_KEYWORD("bollocks", ROLLBACK, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD)
 PG_KEYWORD("boolean", BOOLEAN_P, COL_NAME_KEYWORD)
 PG_KEYWORD("both", BOTH, RESERVED_KEYWORD)
 PG_KEYWORD("by", BY, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD)
 PG_KEYWORD("cache", CACHE, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD)
 PG_KEYWORD("called", CALLED, UNRESERVED_KEYWORD)
#2David E. Wheeler
david@kineticode.com
In reply to: Matthew Altus (#1)
Re: Alias to rollback keyword

On Mar 31, 2010, at 5:42 PM, Matthew Altus wrote:

After dealing with a production fault and having to rollback all the time, I
kept typing a different word instead of rollback. So I created a patch to
accept this word as an alias for rollback. Obviously it's not part of the sql
standard, but could be a nice extension for postgresql. See the patch for
more details.

+100

Best,

David

#3Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Matthew Altus (#1)
Re: Alias to rollback keyword

Matthew Altus wrote:

Hey,

After dealing with a production fault and having to rollback all the time, I
kept typing a different word instead of rollback. So I created a patch to
accept this word as an alias for rollback. Obviously it's not part of the sql
standard, but could be a nice extension for postgresql. See the patch for
more details.

Applied.

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#4Robert Haas
robertmhaas@gmail.com
In reply to: Bruce Momjian (#3)
Re: Alias to rollback keyword

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

Matthew Altus wrote:

Hey,

After dealing with a production fault and having to rollback all the time, I
kept typing a different word instead of rollback.  So I created a patch to
accept this word as an alias for rollback.  Obviously it's not part of the sql
standard, but could be a nice extension for postgresql.  See the patch for
more details.

Applied.

You know, I was about to write a rant about this, until I realized
what day it will be soon (or already is, UTC).

...Robert

#5Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Robert Haas (#4)
Re: Alias to rollback keyword

Robert Haas wrote:

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

Matthew Altus wrote:

Hey,

After dealing with a production fault and having to rollback all the time, I
kept typing a different word instead of rollback. ?So I created a patch to
accept this word as an alias for rollback. ?Obviously it's not part of the sql
standard, but could be a nice extension for postgresql. ?See the patch for
more details.

Applied.

You know, I was about to write a rant about this, until I realized
what day it will be soon (or already is, UTC).

CVS is GMT-based.

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#6Ross J. Reedstrom
reedstrm@rice.edu
In reply to: Bruce Momjian (#3)
Re: Alias to rollback keyword

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:34:41PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:

Matthew Altus wrote:

Hey,

After dealing with a production fault and having to rollback all the time, I
kept typing a different word instead of rollback. So I created a patch to
accept this word as an alias for rollback. Obviously it's not part of the sql
standard, but could be a nice extension for postgresql. See the patch for
more details.

Applied.

Hmm, a careful review of the patch leads me to believe that this is one
of the few times that a keyword might benefit from localization. Seems
l10n efforts in this area have mostly focused on the filtering case, but
I'm sure we can repurose such lists. Licensing might be an issue.
Clearly this needs to be controlled by the client locale, not the
server. Any need for a guc?

Ross
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