Developer's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL
- Last updated: Mon Oct 4 11:29:26 EDT 2004
+ Last updated: Thu Oct 14 15:00:26 EDT 2004
There are two pertinent standards, SQL92 and SQL99. These standards
are endorsed by ANSI and ISO. A draft of the SQL92 standard is
- available at http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/. The SQL99
- standard must be purchased from ANSI at
- http://webstore.ansi.org/ansidocstore/default.asp. The main standards
- documents are ANSI X3.135-1992 for SQL92 and ANSI/ISO/IEC 9075-2-1999
- for SQL99. The SQL 2003 standards are at
+ available at
+ http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/sql.html#syntax. A draft of
+ the SQL99 standard is at
+ http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/dbms/Data/Papers-Other/SQL1999/ansi-iso-9075
+ -2-1999.pdf. The SQL 2003 standard is at
http://www.wiscorp.com/sql/sql_2003_standard.zip
- A summary of these standards is at
- http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/en/lokal/standards.pdf.
-
+ Some SQL standards web pages are:
+ * http://www.wiscorp.com/SQLStandards.html
+ * http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/links/#standards
+ * http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/en/lokal/standards.pdf (paper)
+
Technical Questions
2.1) How do I efficiently access information in tables from the backend code?