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Dave Peticolas dave@krondo.com
10 Nov 2001 04:06:21 -0800


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On Sat, 2001-11-10 at 03:48, Scott Drennan wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:56:23PM -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 01:26:06PM -0800, Dave Peticolas was heard to r=
emark:
> > >=20
> > > However, upon reading a Postgres
> > > book I found that in Postgres you don't actually need to use the FROM
> > > clause at all, i.e., Postgres can figure out the tables it needs from=
=20
> > > the rest of the query.=20
> >=20
> > ! I find that hard to beleive, but hey, if its true ...
> >=20
> I don't believe this feature is common to database servers other than=20
> Postgres.  Are we concerned with portability to different database
> backends?  If so it may be worth leaving the FROM clause generation in
> the code in some form.  (Either that, or at least clearly documenting
> that it is not generated due to this Postgres feature)

I will document it, but since the backend is written using
the Postgres C api, it's pretty non-portable atm.

dave


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