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Re: Is this a bug?

From: Galen Boyer <galen_boyer_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 7 Jan 2007 20:02:11 -0600
Message-ID: <uzm8um780.fsf@rcn.com>


On Sat, 06 Jan 2007, damorgan_at_psoug.org wrote:
> Galen Boyer wrote:
>

>> If I bought Oracle when I was there, I would expect them to give me
>> the message that "timestamp" is not a valid name in the language of
>> the country I bought it in.

>
> Isn't is sufficient that they provide you with a place in which you
> can look up reserved words?
>
> I can see complaints about missing reserved words being valid. But to
> complain about words that are in the listing strikes me as more of a
> RTFM issue.

It does not really matter, but I would come down on the side of, "if the name is not valid, then do not let me use it".

-- 
Galen Boyer
Received on Sun Jan 07 2007 - 20:02:11 CST

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