Re: Firebird and PostgreSQL at the DB Corral.

From: Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Firebird and PostgreSQL at the DB Corral.
Date: 2003-12-21 12:13:38
Message-ID: bs42pi$194$1@sea.gmane.org
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Paul Ganainm schrieb:

>>FB does not support inline views/derived tables, e.g.:
>
>>SELECT count(*) FROM (SELECT col1, col2 FROM table)
>
>
> If you have IB/FB, there is a sample db that comes with it, Employee.
> There is a view in that db called phone_list.
>
> I did select count(*) from phone_list and it worked.
>

Sure you can do a select from a view, but try the above statement where the
view definition is "embedded" diretly into the SELECT. This is not
supported by FB 1.5 - though it will be with 2.0

I admit that it is not a very important feature, but I have come to like
it, and sometimes it comes in handy :-)

Regards
Thomas

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