Re: PoC: Make it possible to disallow WHERE-less UPDATE and DELETE

2017-02-02 16:34 GMT+01:00 Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>:

> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 07:18:45AM -0800, David Fetter wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 03:16:29PM +0000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > I just don't see this patch going in. I think it needs are larger
> > > approach to the problems it is trying to solve. I think it then
> > > will be very useful.
> >
> > What problems that it's trying to solve are not addressed?
>
> Unjoined tables. Inconsistent alias references. I think there are a
> bunch of things and if we can make a list and get a mode to warn about
> all of them, it would be very useful.
>

Identification of unjoined tables should be very useful - but it is far to
original proposal - so it can be solved separately.

This patch is simple - and usually we prefer more simple patches than one
bigger.

Better to enhance this feature step by step.

Regards

Pavel

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