Re: BUG #3778: Natural join with filter problem

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Laurent HERVE <laurentjpherve(at)orange(dot)fr>
Cc: PostgreSQL Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #3778: Natural join with filter problem
Date: 2007-11-26 13:56:16
Message-ID: 474AD080.3050702@enterprisedb.com
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Laurent HERVE wrote:
> ok thank you... and sorry for not having checked enough time in the
> documentation.
> anyway, i think a kind of JOIN ... USING (primary key columns) could be
> useful.
> if you change a primary key, because of design choice, you won't have to
> rewrite all rules and views for example, just simple execute would be
> required. This is why i used NATURAL.

Yeah, I see what you mean. NATURAL JOIN is part of the SQ standard, so
we're just following that. Matching by foreign keys would make more
sense to me as well.

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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