Re: Re: [SQL] aliases break my query

> > I claim the only thing that buys is
> > confusion for very little convenience at the other end.
> >
> > Stop the madness! :)
> 
> I doubt that it's worth breaking a lot of existing applications for.
> 
> At one time Bruce had made some patches to emit informative notice
> messages about implicit FROM entries, but that got turned off again
> for reasons that I forget...

I think we could get agreement to not allow implicit from entries 
if there is a from clause in the statement, but allow them if a from clause
is missing altogether. The patch did not distinguish the two cases.

Andreas