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From: "Dave Dutcher" <dave@tridecap.com>
To: <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: OT - select + must have from - sql standard syntax?
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:58:48 -0500
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org 
> [mailto:pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of 
> Greg Stark
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 11:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [PERFORM] OT - select + must have from - sql 
> standard syntax?
[SNIP]
> 
> Well you could always create a "dual", it was always just a 
> regular table. We
> used to joke about what would happen to Oracle if you 
> inserted an extra row in
> it...


I've never used Oracle, so I don't understand why its called dual when
it only has one row?  Shouldn't it be called single?  :\


Dave