> At one time Bruce had made some patches to emit informative notice
> messages about implicit FROM entries, but that got turned off again
> for reasons that I forget...
It was triggered with common cases from the "outer join" syntax. It took
a while to track down since it was introduced while I
Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Joseph Shraibman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > These two queries are exactly alike. The first one uses aliases except
> > for the order by. The second uses aliases also for the order by. The
> > third uses whole names. The third has the behavior I want.
>
> I think you are
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> > > playpen=> select ta.a,ta.b,ta.c, (select count (tb.zz) where tb.yy =
> > > ta.a) from tablea ta, tableb tb order by tablea.a;
> > [ produces 80 rows ]
>
> > > playpen=> select ta.a,ta.b,ta.c, (select count (tb.zz) where tb.yy =
> > > ta.a) from tablea ta, tableb t
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Once again, I think that we *really* need to discuss whether implicit
> range table entries in SELECT are a good idea. We invariably get a
> question like this every week and invariably the answer is "if you give a
> table an alias you *must* refer to
> > playpen=> select ta.a,ta.b,ta.c, (select count (tb.zz) where tb.yy =
> > ta.a) from tablea ta, tableb tb order by tablea.a;
> [ produces 80 rows ]
> > playpen=> select ta.a,ta.b,ta.c, (select count (tb.zz) where tb.yy =
> > ta.a) from tablea ta, tableb tb order by ta.a;
> [ produces 20 rows ]
Joseph Shraibman wrote:
> These two queries are exactly alike. The first one uses aliases except
> for the order by. The second uses aliases also for the order by. The
> third uses whole names. The third has the behavior I want.
> Someone please tell me what I am doing wrong. I don't want to h
Joseph Shraibman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> These two queries are exactly alike. The first one uses aliases except
> for the order by. The second uses aliases also for the order by. The
> third uses whole names. The third has the behavior I want.
I think you are confusing yourself by leaving
These two queries are exactly alike. The first one uses aliases except
for the order by. The second uses aliases also for the order by. The
third uses whole names. The third has the behavior I want.
Someone please tell me what I am doing wrong. I don't want to have to
use whole names for my quer
