On 16 Mar 2007, at 15:42, Martin Friebe wrote:
> I believe to remember there have been feature requests, about the
> placement options for the * in the select
> ( http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=26066 )
>
> currently the * must be the first in the list.
> select *, field from table => ok
> select field, * from table => not ok
>
> This appears to be fixable in the parser with little effort.
> So the questions are:
> - Is it SQL standard conform?
> - Is it a feature that would be wanted?
>
> If it is "yes", I can supply a patch.
>
> One more question, if "yes"
>
> Should "select *, * from table" be allowed?
> My first thought would be "no", but then you can already do:
> "select table.*, table.* from table from table"
Hi Martin. Offhand, I don't know why this special case exists.
Looking at the parser, I suspect that it's probably only a case of
someone wishing to avoid shift/reduce conflicts and not thinking of
these cases. I very much would like to see a patch, along with some
test results that show that such a construction doesn't confuse the
optimizer, which is the only potential problem that comes to mind.
I also say that "SELECT *, *, *, * FROM tablename" should be allowed
also.
- chad
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