From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu (Thomas G(dot) Lockhart) |
Cc: | hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Old parser feature |
Date: | 1998-12-16 01:46:50 |
Message-ID: | 199812160146.UAA24397@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Hey, check it out:
>
> postgres=> select case_tbl.*;
> i| f
> ---+-----
> -3| 10.1
> -6| 20.2
> -9|-30.3
> -12|
> (4 rows)
>
> Notes in the parser say this was allowed with POSTQUEL, so was retained
> when implementing SQL...
Yes, nice feature. QUEL allowed:
retrieve (case_tbl.all)
In fact, QUEL never had a FROM clause in the SQL sense.
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