pgsql: Make LATERAL implicit for functions in FROM.
От | Tom Lane |
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Тема | pgsql: Make LATERAL implicit for functions in FROM. |
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Msg-id | E1TzD9T-0005bR-1H@gemulon.postgresql.org обсуждение исходный текст |
Список | pgsql-committers |
Make LATERAL implicit for functions in FROM. The SQL standard does not have general functions-in-FROM, but it does allow UNNEST() there (see the <collection derived table> production), and the semantics of that are defined to include lateral references. So spec compliance requires allowing lateral references within UNNEST() even without an explicit LATERAL keyword. Rather than making UNNEST() a special case, it seems best to extend this flexibility to any function-in-FROM. We'll still allow LATERAL to be written explicitly for clarity's sake, but it's now a noise word in this context. In theory this change could result in a change in behavior of existing queries, by allowing what had been an outer reference in a function-in-FROM to be captured by an earlier FROM-item at the same level. However, all pre-9.3 PG releases have a bug that causes them to match variable references to earlier FROM-items in preference to outer references (and then throw an error). So no previously-working query could contain the type of ambiguity that would risk a change of behavior. Per a suggestion from Andrew Gierth, though I didn't use his patch. Branch ------ master Details ------- http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2378d79ab29865f59245744beb8f04a3ce56d2ae Modified Files -------------- doc/src/sgml/queries.sgml | 20 +++++++++++--- doc/src/sgml/ref/select.sgml | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++--------- src/backend/parser/parse_clause.c | 21 +++++++++++--- src/test/regress/expected/join.out | 37 +++++++++++++++++--------- src/test/regress/expected/rangefuncs.out | 13 ++++++--- src/test/regress/sql/join.sql | 13 ++++++--- src/test/regress/sql/rangefuncs.sql | 2 +- 7 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
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