trailingcoma

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trailingcoma··on How about trailing commas in SQL?

I anxiously await your pull request.

trailingcoma··on How about trailing commas in SQL?

Maybe some ideas are just not good ideas.

trailingcoma··on How about trailing commas in SQL?

Curious to see your Postgres PR with this change in it. Is it done yet?

trailingcoma··on How about trailing commas in SQL?

Everyone knows the hardest part about writing SQL is having to get Claude to tell you where the commas should go.

trailingcoma··on How about trailing commas in SQL?

Lmao yeah, web pages take 10+ seconds to load megabytes of JavaScript that do nothing but waste time and energy, but the SQL commas are the real culprits!

What a joke.

trailingcoma··on How about trailing commas in SQL?

People who endlessly complain about syntax aren't usually writing any meaningful code, I've found.

trailingcoma··on How about trailing commas in SQL?

Not sure why you're being downvoted; this is the only mature, reasonable answer. This is a frivolous complaint, that would upend the SQL grammar, because someone blogged about being mildly inconvenienced. I _wish_ I had tiny, nitpicky problems like this, but my problems are actually substantial.

trailingcoma··on How about trailing commas in SQL?

How about we just do nothing and people write syntactically-correct SQL instead of demanding everyone and everything else change? I'm sorry, is this really the most important impediment to software development right now? Some guy's beef with the SQL parser?