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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Smith <laconical@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Enhancement to SQL query capabilities
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 09:17:00 -0400
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Andrew Smith <laconical@gmail.com> writes:
> Looking to migrate a software product to postgres coming from a home-grown
> DBMS. Whilst the majority of features in postgres are a gazillion times
> better than what our own DBMS has, one feature that I find I am missing is
> the ability to dereference foreign key fields in queries without having to
> join a bunch of tables together.

Aside from the other solutions that have been mentioned, have you
considered querying a view that contains the desired join?

There's no substitute for fixing that nonstandard syntax, in any case.
Even if you could persuade pgsql-hackers that the concept was good
(which I really doubt), they'd not go for using : as a selector.

			regards, tom lane


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