Waiting for SQL:202y: Stockholm (BMA) Meeting Report
The report summarizes a Stockholm meeting of the ISO SQL standards committee (BMA), covering progress on the next SQL standard revision (SQL:202y). Discussions included new features, technical refinements, and procedural decisions for the ongoing development of the SQL language specification.
Background
This is a technical meeting report from Peter Eisentraut, a core contributor to the PostgreSQL database project and a member of the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 WG 3 committee, which is the international working group that defines the SQL standard. The report covers the June 2026 meeting in Stockholm (hosted by BMA — likely a Swedish standards body acronym) for the next version of the SQL standard, informally called "SQL:202y" (the exact year suffix hasn't been finalized yet).