Subject: Re: Allow an alias to be attached directly to a JOIN ... USING
To: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>,
 Georgios Kokolatos <gkokolatos@protonmail.com>,
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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 08:12:00 +0100
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On 05.03.21 18:00, David Steele wrote:
> On 11/14/20 3:49 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On 2020-11-10 16:15, Georgios Kokolatos wrote:
>>> I noticed that this patch fails on the cfbot.
>>> For this, I changed the status to: 'Waiting on Author'.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> //Georgios
>>>
>>> The new status of this patch is: Waiting on Author
>>
>> Here is a rebased and lightly retouched patch.
> 
> There don't seem to be any objections to just documenting the slight 
> divergence from the spec.
> 
> So, does it make sense to just document that and proceed?

Yeah, I think that is not a problem.

I think Tom's input on the guts of this patch would be most valuable, 
since it intersects a lot with the parse namespace refactoring he did.