Re: [HACKERS] FETCH without FROM/IN

On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 11:09:11AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> It looks to me like the backend grammar *does* accept FETCH without
> IN/FROM cursor.  Which seems pretty bizarre --- I don't understand how
> it makes sense to omit a cursor name from FETCH.

Yes, it does accept if NO portal name is given. This is corrected by the
patch. But what I wanted to talk about is the IN/FROM keyword. 

>          <fetch statement> ::=
>               FETCH [ [ <fetch orientation> ] FROM ]
>                 <cursor name> INTO <fetch target list>

To me this seems to say that FROM is just optional. Okay, if I make it
optional in our parser?

Michael
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