| From: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> |
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| To: | josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Add Missing From? |
| Date: | 2004-08-11 10:28:17 |
| Message-ID: | 4119F4C1.40302@pse-consulting.de |
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Andreas,
>
>
>>The USING would be in place of the mandatory FROM in MSSQL. And why use
>>a different keyword for the same thing in DELETE and UPDATE?
>
>
> Um, because for us the 1st FROM isn't optional (per SQL spec)?
>
Seems that many RDBMS regard that FROM as a noise word. Making it
optional would probably enhance portability, I can't see drawbacks.
Regards,
Andreas
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