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From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
To: Matt Mello <alien@spaceship.com>
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Subject: Re: implied FROM
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On Fri, 2 May 2003, Matt Mello wrote:

> Tomasz Myrta said:
> > <cut>
> > Some people
> > said,  that it is very useful inside update queries. The conclusion was
> > this  behaviour should stay as it is.
>
> We should at least have the ability to change a PG setting to say that we DO
> NOT WANT PG to try to second guess us ('set FORDUMMYS = false', or
> whatever). In my mind, this "feature" is a violation of the spirit of SQL.
> I wish I was on this list for the "vote" everyone took on this.

Actually 7.4 should have an GUC option for this (enable_implicit_from),
see recent posts to -patches.