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 remark: > > > > > > 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 > > > the rest of the query. > > > > ! I find that hard to beleive, but hey, if its true ... > > > I don't believe this feature is common to database servers other than > 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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