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Re: "SELECT ... FROM DUAL" is not quite as silly as it appears - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Rowley
Subject Re: "SELECT ... FROM DUAL" is not quite as silly as it appears
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In response to Re: "SELECT ... FROM DUAL" is not quite as silly as it appears  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 at 13:17, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > 1. I don't think having a table named "dual" makes a whole lot of
> > sense for a table with a single row.
>
> Well, I borrowed Oracle terminology there ;-)

yep, but ... go on... break the mould :)

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