Re: select from sequences - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jaime Casanova
Subject Re: select from sequences
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Msg-id c2d9e70e0702112058t22602ba0h3b0ce43a7f1bdb6f@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: select from sequences  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: select from sequences  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: select from sequences  ("Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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On 2/11/07, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Jaime Casanova" <systemguards@gmail.com> writes:
> > just for curiosity, why the code doesn't throw an error when using
> > sequences in the from_list of a select?
>
> That's a feature, not a bug.
>

and why is this a feature? i mean, what real use it has?

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regards,
Jaime Casanova

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
build bigger and better idiot-proof programs and the universe trying
to produce bigger and better idiots.
So far, the universe is winning."                                      Richard Cook


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