Re: How do I disable: Adding missing FROM-clause

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 10:41:04AM +0200, Sebastian Böck wrote:
> Thought about this when reading
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL
>
> This site says:
> | A typical search might look like this:
> |
> | SELECT u.* FROM user u, address a WHERE a.city='New York'
> | AND a.user_name=u.user_name
> |
> | PostgreSQL can explicitly define the relationship between users
> | and addresses. Once defined, the address becomes a property of
> | the user, so the search can be greatly simplified to:
> |
> | SELECT * FROM user WHERE address.city='New York'
>
> This example isn't working for me "as it is".
> What relationships have to be defined and how?
> Normal foreign keys aren't working.

I'm pretty sure this is wrong. I've never seen anything in PostgreSQL
that might do what that bit says. There are some other inaccuracies too
I think.
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