From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Cc: mail@garv.in
Subject: Re: Query issue/8.0.1/Serendipity
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:41:28 -0600
Message-ID: <200503080941.28911.ler@lerctr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6329.1110296271@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <200503080548.17179.ler@lerctr.org>
<6329.1110296271@sss.pgh.pa.us>
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 09:37 am, Tom Lane wrote:
> Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> writes:
> > I have an 8.0.1 server running the Blogging software serendipity, and the
> > following query fails with "relation e not defined", but it is on the
> > first line:
> >
> > "SELECT timestamp FROM serendipity_entries e, serendipity_category c,
> > serendipity_entrycat ec LEFT OUTER JOIN serendipity_entryproperties
> > ep_cache_extended ON (e.id = ep_cache_extended.entryid AND
> > ep_cache_extended.property = 'ep_cache_extended') ...
>
> Broken SQL that's only ever been tested on MySQL.
>
> Last I heard, MySQL treated this sort of construct as joining
> left-to-right, ie,
>
> FROM e CROSS JOIN c CROSS JOIN ec LEFT JOIN ...
>
> in which case the left argument of the LEFT JOIN already contains
> e, c, and ec so it's OK for the JOIN condition to use e. Unfortunately
> for MySQL users everywhere, this is expressly contrary to the SQL spec:
> per spec, JOIN binds more tightly than commas in the FROM-list do.
Thanks, Tom. Garvin Hicking (the Serendipity Developer) confirms it works on
MySQL, and I wasn't sure about the spec.
Thanks for confirming it's a MySQL gotcha :)
LER
>
> (Is this on the mysql gotchas page?)
>
> regards, tom lane
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