Re: Bug or stupidity - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Steven Klassen
Subject Re: Bug or stupidity
Date
Msg-id 20041025140456.GB23440@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: Bug or stupidity  (Thomas Hallgren <thhal@mailblocks.com>)
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* Thomas Hallgren <thhal@mailblocks.com> [2004-10-25 15:52:20 +0200]:

> IMHO, it would be a more natural choice to have the add_missing_from
> disabled by default. Why would anyone *ever* want faulty SQL being
> magically "patched up" by the dbms?

That assumes that developers will implement queries in their code
without testing them. Unfortunately, that's probably not too far from
reality. I've thought of it as a nice "debugging" feature while I'm
trying to hammer out a complicated query for the first time.

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