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>go about this. That will risk breaking existing applications that use >those names as column names. > >It should actually almost work to write sq.nextval as things stand, >because Postgres has for a long time considered table.function and >function(table) to be interchangeable notations for certain kinds of >functions. nextval doesn't seem to be one of that kind of function, >at the moment. I'd suggest leaving the grammar as it was, and taking a >look at ParseFuncOrColumn in parse_func.c to see if you can't persuade >it to accept the sequence functions in that style. OK, good point. I tried to implement it somewhere else and ended up extending transformAttr. Attached you'll find the patch. Jeroen van Vianen
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