Re: Is this a bug?

Galen Boyer a écrit :

> On 7 Jan 2007, hasta_l3_at_hotmail.com wrote:
> > Galen Boyer a écrit :
> >
> >> On Sat, 06 Jan 2007, damorgan_at_psoug.org wrote:
> >> > Galen Boyer wrote:
> >> >
> >> > 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".
> >
> > And break backward compatibility ?
>
> Well, one can also implement it in a way to not break backward
> compatibility, or can Oracle never actually continue to upgrade their
> product to do things better than the last time?
>

I dont know, Galen. I'm all for error messages, and hate the kind of patches Oracle had to do here.

However, I just dont see how they could have avoided it without breaking compatibility. If you have an idea, I'm sincerely interested to know...

Regards

• Raoul