[nicoburns]

A slight tangent, but do you have any pointers on how one might get involved in either:

- The SQL standardisation process (or whether this is even feasible as someone who isn't involved in the development of a major database engine)

- Postgres development

The feature I am particularly keen to get accepted is trailing commas in SELECT column lists (potentially other places too, but SELECT lists would be a very good start). And there are potentially a bunch of other improvements in the syntax sugar department that I might be interested in spearheading if I could successfully get this accepted (e.g. being able to refer to select list column aliases in GROUP BY clauses).

I don't have much experience with C, but I would potentially be up for actually implementing the change if I could get buy in from the maintainers.

[orthoxerox]

> The feature I am particularly keen to get accepted is trailing commas in SELECT column lists

Not "GROUP BY THE OBVIOUS LIST OF EXPRESSIONS, YOU KNOW, THE ONES FROM THE SELECT CLAUSE THAT DON'T CONTAIN AGGREGATE FUNCTIONS"? Aka "GROUP BY ALL" from DuckDB.

[gurjeet]

Postgres project is always looking for contributors. The project has a very nice, detailed, well-defined documentation on how to contribute [1]. The community is very welcoming, and has a process (CommitFest[2]) in place to ensure all submissions get their due attention.

FWIW, I am starting to make an effort (e.g. [3]) towards helping the newcomers get their work in shape to be acceptable by the committers.

Note: I'm biased towards Postgres community, since I've worked with them for many years. So others' opinion _may_ differ, but it's highly unlikely.

[1]: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Development_information [2]: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Development_information#Com... [3]: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CABwTF4Us8WGMffNGTNY1X...