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birb07 | 1 year ago

they are _not_ backwards compatible. That's a big part of the problem. A trailing comma is a syntax error for an SQL engine without support for it

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dhruvrajvanshi|1 year ago

I mean, yes, technically, but is anyone's code actually breaking because of this?

Who is writing SQL queries expecting them to fail because of this reason?

By your definition, "backwards compatible" doesn't mean anything. Literally everything will be a breaking change if you define "backwards compatible" like this.

tibbar|1 year ago

I think the term you are looking for is "forwards compatible"! Old SQL queries will still run fine on engines that support the new syntax (they're forwards compatible.) New SQL queries with trailing commas will NOT run fine on engines that don't support trailing commas; this is not a backwards-compatible change. And that's fine.