From: Aaron Bono <postgresql@aranya.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jesper Krogh <jesper@krogh.cc>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: The empty list?
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 16:43:41 -0600
Message-ID: <bf05e51c0611021443q27b1012bt9236ca595e1f03c2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21991.1162506863@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <454A654B.2000306@krogh.cc>
<21991.1162506863@sss.pgh.pa.us>
On 11/2/06, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Jesper Krogh <jesper@krogh.cc> writes:
> > Whereas this gives a syntax error:
>
> > # select 1 in ();
> > ERROR: syntax error at or near ")" at character 14
> > LINE 1: select 1 in ();
> > ^
>
> I think the short answer why the spec disallows this (which it does)
> is that it considers the right-hand side to be a table, and with
> absolutely nothing there, there is no way to impute a rowtype to the
> table.
>
>
So if this syntax violates the specs then the ORM is the what needs to be
change. The ORM should not attempt to do this.
I have to use DB2 sometimes and it also does not allow empty ().
What ORM are you using that is trying to do this?
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Aaron Bono
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