[Phpmyadmin-devel] SQL Standards

The person I was working with pointed me to a little used link on their site, and I believe that all of us here should take a look at it when we have time. It's a link to get the draft copy of the SQL-200x standard, which, according to him as he is on the ISO SQL committee, is fairly near ready to be released. He also says there will be no more fixes to it, other than spelling/typo fixes. Here is the link: http://www.jtc1sc32.org/sc32/jtc1sc32.nsf/23933607697154bf852566160054bcf7/… You want the first PDF file. Most notably in it, I find that some things that MySQL thinks are valid, are NOT part of the SQL standard. ESP how it does the valid identifier tokens that I had trouble with. MySQL claims valid tokens are: ([A-Za-z$_0-9]*[a-zA-Z$_][A-Za-z$_0-9]*) But the standard says: ([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z_0-9]*) There are a number of other things, so such a point where I have this question: Should we explictly support MySQL where it diverges from the standard, or only support the SQL standard, with minimal MySQL extensions? -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : robbat2(a)orbis-terrarum.net Home Page : http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=people.robbat2 ICQ# : 30269588 or 41961639