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> PostgreSQL USER is cursed > The USER keyword in PostgreSQL is cursed because you can select from it like a table, which leads to confusion if you have a table name user as well.

is even funnier :D



SQL's "feature" of having table and field names in the same syntactic namespace as an ever expanding set of english language keywords is the original eldritch curse behind it all.




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