Re: Make subquery alias optional in FROM clause

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 3:17 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:33 PM, Nico Williams <nico(at)cryptonector(dot)com>
> wrote:
> >> I suspect most users, like me, just roll their eyes, grumble, and put up
> >> with it rather than complain. It's a pain point, but tolerable enough
> >> that no one bothers to demand a change. Now that it's been done though,
> >> allow me to add my voice in favor of it!
>
> > +1 to all of that.

My vote doesn't count much but it would be -1.

Question: Will the patch be removed if and when Oracle decides to be
compatible with the standard and forbids non-aliased derived tables?

(I know it's a rather theoretical question. Unlikely that Oracle breaks
backwards compatibility on that.)

Pantelis Theodosiou