| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: psql 7.3.4 disagrees with NATURAL CROSS JOIN |
| Date: | 2004-05-07 20:14:54 |
| Message-ID: | 409BEE3E.4060201@dunslane.net |
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Tom Lane wrote:
>Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>
>
>>Just a note for the hackers, Jonathan (I think :) ) talked to me about
>>this on the irc channel - we couldn't figure this one out. Seems that
>>pg_dump produces NATURAL CROSS JOIN in the dump of a view, but the pgsql
>>grammar does not appear to allow it.
>>
>>
>
>Hm. The syntax NATURAL CROSS JOIN is specifically disallowed by SQL99
>and our parser (see attached SQL99 excerpt). If pg_dump produces that
>in a view dump then that's a bug, but this test case doesn't let me see
>it happen, because the parser rejects the given view definition. Do
>you happen to have the original input that created the view?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
>[snip excerpt from gram.y]
>
>
During the irc discussion I discovered that. But the CREATE TABLE page
in the docs appears to suggest that it is legal. That should be fixed.
cheers
andrew
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