Re: implied FROM

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Matt Mello <alien(at)spaceship(dot)com>
Cc: <jasiek(at)klaster(dot)net>, <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: implied FROM
Date: 2003-05-02 16:33:58
Message-ID: 20030502093219.K65288-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On Fri, 2 May 2003, Matt Mello wrote:

> Tomasz Myrta said:
> > <cut>
> > Some people
> > said, that it is very useful inside update queries. The conclusion was
> > this behaviour should stay as it is.
>
> We should at least have the ability to change a PG setting to say that we DO
> NOT WANT PG to try to second guess us ('set FORDUMMYS = false', or
> whatever). In my mind, this "feature" is a violation of the spirit of SQL.
> I wish I was on this list for the "vote" everyone took on this.

Actually 7.4 should have an GUC option for this (enable_implicit_from),
see recent posts to -patches.

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