On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 13:19 -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I just saw this in the docs:
>
> > Finally, NATURAL is a shorthand form of USING: it forms a USING list
> > consisting of exactly those column names that appear in both input
> > tables. As with USING, these columns appear only once in the output
> > table.
>
> That sounds useful if I happen to have named my columns exactly the
> same between the two tables, but couldn't a NATURAL JOIN follow the FK
> constraints, instead? That would be so much more useful and much less
> magical, I should think.
A good point, but I'm sure the SQL standard has something to say about
this, so I don't think we have much of a choice.
Regards,Jeff Davis
