SSA-1.1

[Patrick Dowler]

On 2011-04-27 07:49:28 Markus Demleitner wrote:
> First, for the current SSA draft: If anything needs to be said at all
> then it should be a clarification as to matching modes for
> TARGETNAME.  IMHO that should be: "There are no metacharacters in
> TARGETNAME. Clients should not assume any case folding or
> whitespace normalization on the server side.  Servers are free to
> perform case folding and/or whitespace normalization."

agreed
 
> I can, however, very well see a strong need for lenient matching.

This sounds exactly like material that should be considered carefully enough 
to cover the general case, covered in a PQL specification, and common to all 
services that accept PQL queries. Other query languages (eg ADQL) have their 
own way of handling such things.

SSA-1.1 is not the place to add anything but clarification (as above).

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