Tom,

I have included a pg_dump of the schema that causes this problem. If you take out the 
word "CROSS" from my source files, it should load just fine. If you then pg_dump it, 
in there you should find "CROSS".

Jonathan Scott


On Thu, 06 May 2004 22:26:13 -0400
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Just a note for the hackers, Jonathan (I think :) ) talked to me about 
> > this on the irc channel - we couldn't figure this one out.  Seems that 
> > pg_dump produces NATURAL CROSS JOIN in the dump of a view, but the pgsql 
> > grammar does not appear to allow it.
> 
> Hm.  The syntax NATURAL CROSS JOIN is specifically disallowed by SQL99
> and our parser (see attached SQL99 excerpt).  If pg_dump produces that
> in a view dump then that's a bug, but this test case doesn't let me see
> it happen, because the parser rejects the given view definition.  Do
> you happen to have the original input that created the view?
> 
>                       regards, tom lane
> 
> 
>          <joined table> ::=
>                 <cross join>
>               | <qualified join>
>               | <natural join>
>               | <union join>
> 
>          <cross join> ::=
>               <table reference> CROSS JOIN <table primary>
> 
>          <qualified join> ::=
>               <table reference> [ <join type> ] JOIN <table reference>
>                   <join specification>
> 
>          <natural join> ::=
>               <table reference> NATURAL [ <join type> ] JOIN <table primary>
> 
>          ...
> 
>          <join type> ::=
>                 INNER
>               | <outer join type> [ OUTER ]
> 
>          <outer join type> ::=
>                 LEFT
>               | RIGHT
>               | FULL
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