čt 22. 10. 2020 v 15:32 odesílatel Jürgen Purtz <juer...@purtz.de> napsal:

> On 22.10.20 01:40, David G. Johnston wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 2:36 AM Jürgen Purtz <juer...@purtz.de> wrote:
>
>> On 04.09.20 08:52, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> >
>> > For the remaining patch I have a couple of concerns:
>>
>
> This patch should not be changing the formatting choices for these
> queries, just the addition of a JOIN clause and modification of the WHERE
> clause.  Specifically, SELECT is left-aligned while all subsequent clauses
> indent under it.  Forced alignment by adding extra spaces isn't done here
> either.  I have not altered those in the attached.
>
> Did some word-smithing on the first paragraph.  The part about the
> cross-join was hurt by "in some way" and "may be" is not needed.
>
> Pointing out that values from both tables doesn't seem like an improvement
> when the second item covers that and it is more specific in noting that the
> city name that is joined on appears twice - once from each table.
>
> ON expression is more precise and the reader should be ok with the term.
>
> Removal of the exercise is good.  Not the time to discuss cross join
> anyway.  Given that "ON true" works the cross join form isn't even required.
>
> In the FROM clause form I would not add table prefixes to the column
> names.  They are not part of the form changing.  If discussion about table
> prefixing is desired it should be done explicitly and by itself.  They are
> used later on, I didn't check to see whether that was covered or might be
> confusing.
>
> I suggested a wording for why to use join syntax that doesn't involve
> legacy and points out its merit compared to sticking a join expression into
> the where clause.
>
> The original patch missed having the syntax for the first left outer join
> conform to the multi-line query writing standard you introduced.  I did not
> change.
>
> The "AND" ON clause should just go with (not changed):
>
> ON (w1.temp_lo < w2.temp_lo
>     AND w1.temp_hi > w2.temp_high);
>
> Attaching my suggestions made on top of the attached original
> 0002-query.patch
>
> David J.
>
> (Hopefully) I have integrated all of David's suggestions as well as the
> following rules:
>
> - Syntax formatting with the previously used 4 spaces plus newline for JOIN
>
> - Table aliases only when necessary or explicitly discussed
>
> The discussion about the explicit vs. implicit syntax is added to the "As
> join expressions serve a specific purpose ... " sentence and creates a
> paragraph of its own.
>
> The patch is build on top of master.
>

Why do you use parenthesis for ON clause?  It is useless. SQL is not C or
JAVA.

Regards

Pavel

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