On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Ryan Johnson <ryan.john...@cs.utoronto.ca>wrote:
> On 31/10/2012 9:54 AM, Samuel Neff wrote: > >> We wrote a query and intended to use a "natural" join but had a typo and >> wrote "natrual" join instead. We were surprised this query was processed >> without error and performed a cross join. >> > That must have been a delightful one to track down... > > It's due to the (non-standard?) support for specifing table aliases > without the keyword AS. In other words, sqlite3 sees the following as > identical: > > sqlite> select natral.* from a natral join b; > sqlite> select natral.* from a as natral join b; > > ... and will reject this: > sqlite> select a.* from a natral join b; > > Whether this is a bug or a feature, I'm not sure... but it clearly had an > unintended consequence in your case. > I copied this syntax from PostgreSQL > > Ryan > > > ______________________________**_________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-**users<http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users> > -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
