| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: On columnar storage |
| Date: | 2015-06-17 18:04:31 |
| Message-ID: | 20150617180431.GZ133018@postgresql.org |
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Jim Nasby wrote:
> Related to idea of an 'auto join', I do wish we had the ability to access
> columns in a referenced FK table from a referring key; something like SELECT
> customer_id.first_name FROM invoice (which would be translated to SELECT
> first_name FROM invoice JOIN customer USING( customer_id )).
We already have this feature -- you just need to set the
add_missing_from GUC.
(... actually we removed that feature because it was considered
dangerous or something.)
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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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