Re: Add Missing From?

From: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Add Missing From?
Date: 2004-08-09 02:32:52
Message-ID: 200408082232.52508.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
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On Sunday 08 August 2004 21:44, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Tom,
>
> > I don't see anything in the current docs warning that such a change is
> > afoot. We have insisted on one release cycle's warning for smaller
> > things than this ...
>
> Ok. Can we put a warning in, then? Where should we put it?

AFAIR this is still the only way to do updates on joined tables, a feature
that IIRC is in the sql spec (and certianly in other rdbms') that we do not
support. Until we come up with a solution for that, I think our current
behavior of defaulting on and emiting a warning upon occurance is the right
way to go.

--
Robert Treat
Build A Better Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

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