On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 3:17 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:33 PM, Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> wrote: >> I suspect most users, like me, just roll their eyes, grumble, and put up >> with it rather than complain. It's a pain point, but tolerable enough >> that no one bothers to demand a change. Now that it's been done though, >> allow me to add my voice in favor of it!
> +1 to all of that.
My vote doesn't count much but it would be -1.
Question: Will the patch be removed if and when Oracle decides to be compatible with the standard and forbids non-aliased derived tables?
(I know it's a rather theoretical question. Unlikely that Oracle breaks backwards compatibility on that.)