Re: Allow an alias to be attached directly to a JOIN ... USING

On 2019-12-24 19:13, Fabien COELHO wrote:
>>> Indeed, that seems like a problem, and it's a good question. You can
>>> see this on unpatched master with SELECT x.filler FROM
>>> (pgbench_tellers AS t JOIN b USING (bid)) AS x.
>>
>> I'm not sure I understand why that problem is a blocker for this patch.
>
> As discussed on another thread,
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/2aa57950-b1d7-e9b6-0770-fa592d565dda(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com
>
> the patch does not conform to spec
>
> SQL:2016 Part 2 Foundation Section 7.10 <joined table>
>
> Basically "x" is expected to include *ONLY* joined attributes with USING,
> i.e. above only x.bid should exists, and per-table aliases are expected to
> still work for other attributes.

I took another crack at this. Attached is a new patch that addresses
the semantic comments from this and the other thread. It's all a bit
tricky, comments welcome.

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