Re: Join condition parsing puzzle

On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 4:51 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Mark Jeffcoat <jeffcoat(at)alumni(dot)rice(dot)edu> writes:

> > I would have claimed before seeing this example that it wasn't even
> > grammatical; I thought the only legal place to write the ON clause was
> > immediately after the JOIN. Apparently not.
>
> You read it as
>
> SELECT *
> FROM
> relation_a
> LEFT JOIN (relation_b
> JOIN relation_c
> ON (relation_c.id_p = relation_b.id_p))
> ON (relation_a.id_c = relation_b.id_c AND relation_a.id_v = relation_b.id_v);
>
> There's no other valid way to parenthesize it, so that's what
> the parser does.

Thank you very much for your help, Tom. In retrospect, I see I'd
over-generalized the rule that sub-selects in the from clause require
an alias.

Clear now.

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Mark Jeffcoat
Austin, TX