Pipe Syntax in SQL

>>legran+(OP)
Here is one example from the PDF:

    FROM r JOIN s USING (id)
    |> WHERE r.c < 15
    |> AGGREGATE sum(r.e) AS s GROUP BY r.d
    |> WHERE s > 3
    |> ORDER BY d
    |> SELECT d, s, rank() OVER (order by d)

Can we call this SQL anymore after this? This re-ordering of things has been done by others too, like PRQL, but they didn't call it SQL. I do think it makes things more readable.

>>Cianti+06
At this point I think that vanilla SQL should just support optionally putting the from before the select. It's useful for enabling autocompletion, among other things.

>>nextac+aT1
And a simple keyword that does a GROUP BY on all columns in select that aren't aggregates, just a syntax level macro-ish type of thing.

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