Re: change the order of FROM selection to make query work - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thomas Peter
Subject Re: change the order of FROM selection to make query work
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Msg-id sZ2rFiAX.1159281622.9141730.sol00-thomas@sol00.hostsharing.net
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In response to Re: change the order of FROM selection to make query work  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Am 26.9.2006 schrieb "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> FROM ticket as t, permission as perm, enum as p
>> LEFT OUTER JOIN ticket_custom c ON (t.id = c.ticket AND c.name =
>> 'fachabteilung')
>
>The above is, plain and simple, wrong.  According to the SQL spec,
>JOIN binds more tightly than comma in a FROM-list, so what you had was
>
>FROM ..., (enum as p
>  LEFT OUTER JOIN ticket_custom c ON (t.id = c.ticket AND c.name =
>  'fachabteilung'))
>
>which of course fails because only p and c are visible in the JOIN's
>ON condition.  You fixed it by moving "t" to become part of the JOIN
>structure.

ok, lesson learned.
thank you!

cheers,
thomas

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