Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On lör, 2011-05-21 at 15:46 +0200, Fabien COELHO wrote:
>> From a language definition perspective, it is helpful to have a name for
>> every case instead of an implicit fallback, without any word to describe
>> it. See for instance "CREATE USER CREATEDB/NOCREATEDB" or "CREATE RULE ...
>> DO ALSO/INSTEAD" for similar occurences of naming default cases.
> Oddly enough, we did add the DO ALSO syntax much later, and no one
> complained about that, as far as I recall.
Sure, but CREATE RULE is entirely locally-grown syntax, so there is no
argument from standards compliance to consider there.
regards, tom lane