On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 09:11:06 -0700,
Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Christian Almeida wrote:
>
> > Should this sql work?
>
> Yes and no. ;) Whether this errors or adds the reference is controlled by
> a configuration variable, add_missing_from. For backwards compatibility
> reasons (and for allowing outside table references in delete) the variable
> currently defaults to on IIRC. At some point in the future the default
> will likely change to off.
Unless things change it will be off by default in 8.1. This is mentioned
in the release notes. There is now a USING clause for DELETE which covers
the case that couldn't previously be handled without the missing from
feature.