"Adding missing from clause"

Started by Josh Berkusover 22 years ago14 messages
#1Josh Berkus
josh@agliodbs.com

PG Folks,

Could we have a .conf option to turn OFF the "Adding Missing From Clause for
Table ... "? I'd far rather have a fatal query error than have Postgres
automatically insert the tables it thinks I wanted. This automated adding in
tables also seems very inconsistent with Postgres' dedication to accuracy
above all.

Apologies if this is already taken care of in 7.4.

--
-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Josh Berkus (#1)
Re: "Adding missing from clause"

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:

Could we have a .conf option to turn OFF the "Adding Missing From Clause for
Table ... "?

No objection here. Send a patch.

regards, tom lane

#3Philip Warner
pjw@rhyme.com.au
In reply to: Josh Berkus (#1)
Re: "Adding missing from clause"

At 02:36 PM 29/04/2003 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:

I'd far rather have a fatal query error than have Postgres
automatically insert the tables it thinks I wanted

I too would dearly like to see this.

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#4Nigel J. Andrews
nandrews@investsystems.co.uk
In reply to: Tom Lane (#2)
1 attachment(s)
Re: [HACKERS] "Adding missing from clause"

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:

Could we have a .conf option to turn OFF the "Adding Missing From Clause for
Table ... "?

No objection here. Send a patch.

I presume from this just turning it into an error would attract objection and
as I haven't seen a patch for this come through the lists I've attached one
doing:

* Add enable_implicited_join GUC, defaulting to true. Emit notice if
enabled, throw error if disabled when adding implicit RTE.

--
Nigel J. Andrews

Attachments:

enable_implicit_join.patchtext/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name=enable_implicit_join.patchDownload
Index: doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.177
diff -r1.177 runtime.sgml
1545a1546,1559
>       <term><varname>ENABLE_IMPLICIT_JOINS</varname> (<type>boolean</type>)</term>
>       <listitem>
>        <para>
>         This parameter controls whether or not a relation can be added to a
>         FROM clause automatically. If enabled, the notice
>         <literal>Adding missing FROM-clause entry for table "tablename"</literal>
>         is generated if a relation is automatically added. If not enabled,
>         an error is raised when it is determined that such an extra relation
>         is required.
>        </para>
>       </listitem>
>      </varlistentry>
> 
>      <varlistentry>
Index: src/backend/parser/parse_relation.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/backend/parser/parse_relation.c,v
retrieving revision 1.81
diff -r1.81 parse_relation.c
35a36,39
> /* GUC parameter */
> bool enable_implicit_joins;
> 
> 
1864,1866c1868,1875
< 		elog(NOTICE, "Adding missing FROM-clause entry%s for table \"%s\"",
< 			 pstate->parentParseState != NULL ? " in subquery" : "",
< 			 relation->relname);
---
> 		if (enable_implicit_joins)
> 			elog(NOTICE, "Adding missing FROM-clause entry%s for table \"%s\"",
> 				 pstate->parentParseState != NULL ? " in subquery" : "",
> 				 relation->relname);
> 		else
> 			elog(ERROR, "Missing FROM-clause entry%s for table \"%s\"",
> 				 pstate->parentParseState != NULL ? " in subquery" : "",
> 				 relation->relname);
Index: src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c,v
retrieving revision 1.119
diff -r1.119 guc.c
45a46
> #include "parser/parse_relation.h"
535a537,540
> 	},
> 	{
> 		{"enable_implicit_joins", PGC_USERSET}, &enable_implicit_joins,
> 		true, NULL, NULL
Index: src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample,v
retrieving revision 1.77
diff -r1.77 postgresql.conf.sample
218a219
> #enable_implicit_joins = true
Index: src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c,v
retrieving revision 1.76
diff -r1.76 tab-complete.c
516a517
> 		"enable_implicit_joins",
Index: src/include/parser/parse_relation.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/include/parser/parse_relation.h,v
retrieving revision 1.39
diff -r1.39 parse_relation.h
18a19,23
> 
> /* GUC parameters */
> extern bool enable_implicit_joins;
> 
> 
#5Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Nigel J. Andrews (#4)
Re: [HACKERS] "Adding missing from clause"

"Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk> writes:

* Add enable_implicited_join GUC, defaulting to true. Emit notice if
enabled, throw error if disabled when adding implicit RTE.

I'd call it "enable_implicit_from", I think, but otherwise this seems
reasonable...

regards, tom lane

#6Josh Berkus
josh@agliodbs.com
In reply to: Nigel J. Andrews (#4)
Re: [HACKERS] "Adding missing from clause"

Nigel,

I presume from this just turning it into an error would attract objection
and as I haven't seen a patch for this come through the lists I've attached
one doing:

Darn, that was fast. I was going to tackle this next week; now I don't have
to.

Grazie mille!

--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

#7Nigel J. Andrews
nandrews@investsystems.co.uk
In reply to: Tom Lane (#5)
Re: [HACKERS] "Adding missing from clause" (replacement)

On Thu, 1 May 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

"Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk> writes:

* Add enable_implicited_join GUC, defaulting to true. Emit notice if
enabled, throw error if disabled when adding implicit RTE.

I'd call it "enable_implicit_from", I think, but otherwise this seems
reasonable...

Fair enough, I'm not particularly sold on my choice so here's a replacement
patch with the GUC name changed. If there's a problem it'll probably be because
I edited the patch and not the source.

Log:

* Add enable_implicit_from GUC, defaulting to true. Emit notice if
enabled, throw error if disabled when adding implicit RTE.

--
Nigel J. Andrews

#8Nigel J. Andrews
nandrews@investsystems.co.uk
In reply to: Nigel J. Andrews (#7)
1 attachment(s)
Re: [HACKERS] "Adding missing from clause" (replacement)

Someone slap me, here's the patch attached this time...

On Thu, 1 May 2003, Nigel J. Andrews wrote:

On Thu, 1 May 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

"Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk> writes:

* Add enable_implicited_join GUC, defaulting to true. Emit notice if
enabled, throw error if disabled when adding implicit RTE.

I'd call it "enable_implicit_from", I think, but otherwise this seems
reasonable...

Fair enough, I'm not particularly sold on my choice so here's a replacement
patch with the GUC name changed. If there's a problem it'll probably be because
I edited the patch and not the source.

Log:

* Add enable_implicit_from GUC, defaulting to true. Emit notice if
enabled, throw error if disabled when adding implicit RTE.

--
Nigel J. Andrews

Attachments:

enable_implicit_join.patchtext/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name=enable_implicit_join.patchDownload
Index: doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.177
diff -r1.177 runtime.sgml
1545a1546,1559
>       <term><varname>ENABLE_IMPLICIT_FROM</varname> (<type>boolean</type>)</term>
>       <listitem>
>        <para>
>         This parameter controls whether or not a relation can be added to a
>         FROM clause automatically. If enabled, the notice
>         <literal>Adding missing FROM-clause entry for table "tablename"</literal>
>         is generated if a relation is automatically added. If not enabled,
>         an error is raised when it is determined that such an extra relation
>         is required.
>        </para>
>       </listitem>
>      </varlistentry>
> 
>      <varlistentry>
Index: src/backend/parser/parse_relation.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/backend/parser/parse_relation.c,v
retrieving revision 1.81
diff -r1.81 parse_relation.c
35a36,39
> /* GUC parameter */
> bool enable_implicit_from;
> 
> 
1864,1866c1868,1875
< 		elog(NOTICE, "Adding missing FROM-clause entry%s for table \"%s\"",
< 			 pstate->parentParseState != NULL ? " in subquery" : "",
< 			 relation->relname);
---
> 		if (enable_implicit_from)
> 			elog(NOTICE, "Adding missing FROM-clause entry%s for table \"%s\"",
> 				 pstate->parentParseState != NULL ? " in subquery" : "",
> 				 relation->relname);
> 		else
> 			elog(ERROR, "Missing FROM-clause entry%s for table \"%s\"",
> 				 pstate->parentParseState != NULL ? " in subquery" : "",
> 				 relation->relname);
Index: src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c,v
retrieving revision 1.119
diff -r1.119 guc.c
45a46
> #include "parser/parse_relation.h"
535a537,540
> 	},
> 	{
> 		{"enable_implicit_from", PGC_USERSET}, &enable_implicit_joins,
> 		true, NULL, NULL
Index: src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample,v
retrieving revision 1.77
diff -r1.77 postgresql.conf.sample
218a219
> #enable_implicit_from = true
Index: src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c,v
retrieving revision 1.76
diff -r1.76 tab-complete.c
516a517
> 		"enable_implicit_from",
Index: src/include/parser/parse_relation.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/include/parser/parse_relation.h,v
retrieving revision 1.39
diff -r1.39 parse_relation.h
18a19,23
> 
> /* GUC parameters */
> extern bool enable_implicit_from;
> 
> 
#9Bruce Momjian
pgman@candle.pha.pa.us
In reply to: Philip Warner (#3)
Re: "Adding missing from clause"

Added to TODO:

* Add config variable to prevent auto-adding missing FROM-clause
tables

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Philip Warner wrote:

At 02:36 PM 29/04/2003 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:

I'd far rather have a fatal query error than have Postgres
automatically insert the tables it thinks I wanted

I too would dearly like to see this.

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#10Bruce Momjian
pgman@candle.pha.pa.us
In reply to: Nigel J. Andrews (#7)
Re: [HACKERS] "Adding missing from clause" (replacement)

Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:

http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches

I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Nigel J. Andrews wrote:

On Thu, 1 May 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

"Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk> writes:

* Add enable_implicited_join GUC, defaulting to true. Emit notice if
enabled, throw error if disabled when adding implicit RTE.

I'd call it "enable_implicit_from", I think, but otherwise this seems
reasonable...

Fair enough, I'm not particularly sold on my choice so here's a replacement
patch with the GUC name changed. If there's a problem it'll probably be because
I edited the patch and not the source.

Log:

* Add enable_implicit_from GUC, defaulting to true. Emit notice if
enabled, throw error if disabled when adding implicit RTE.

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#11Bruce Momjian
pgman@candle.pha.pa.us
In reply to: Bruce Momjian (#9)
Re: "Adding missing from clause"

And patch now in queue. :-)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Bruce Momjian wrote:

Added to TODO:

* Add config variable to prevent auto-adding missing FROM-clause
tables

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Philip Warner wrote:

At 02:36 PM 29/04/2003 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:

I'd far rather have a fatal query error than have Postgres
automatically insert the tables it thinks I wanted

I too would dearly like to see this.

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#12Bruce Momjian
pgman@candle.pha.pa.us
In reply to: Nigel J. Andrews (#7)
1 attachment(s)
Re: [HACKERS] "Adding missing from clause" (replacement)

I have applied the following patch, which does make a few adjustments.

I called the variable add_missing_from, rather than
enable_implicit_from. The former seemed clearer.

I also enhanced the documentation for the item.

I added comments for the End-of-list records.

Does someone want to make an argument that this variable should default
to false rather than true, for standards compliance?

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Nigel J. Andrews wrote:

On Thu, 1 May 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

"Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk> writes:

* Add enable_implicited_join GUC, defaulting to true. Emit notice if
enabled, throw error if disabled when adding implicit RTE.

I'd call it "enable_implicit_from", I think, but otherwise this seems
reasonable...

Fair enough, I'm not particularly sold on my choice so here's a replacement
patch with the GUC name changed. If there's a problem it'll probably be because
I edited the patch and not the source.

Log:

* Add enable_implicit_from GUC, defaulting to true. Emit notice if
enabled, throw error if disabled when adding implicit RTE.

--
Nigel J. Andrews

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Index: doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.183
diff -c -c -r1.183 runtime.sgml
*** doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml	11 Jun 2003 18:01:13 -0000	1.183
--- doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml	11 Jun 2003 20:54:40 -0000
***************
*** 1300,1305 ****
--- 1300,1321 ----
  
      <variablelist>
       <varlistentry>
+       <term><varname>ADD_MISSING_FROM</varname> (<type>boolean</type>)</term>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+         This parameter controls whether a relation referenced in a query but
+         missing from the FROM clause should be automatically added to
+         the FROM clause. If enabled (the default), the notice
+         <literal>Adding missing FROM-clause entry for table "tablename"</literal>
+         is generated if a relation is automatically added. If not enabled,
+         an error is raised when an additional extra relation is required.
+         For SQL standards compliance, this value should be set to 
+         <literal>false</>.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+ 
+      <varlistentry>
        <term><varname>AUSTRALIAN_TIMEZONES</varname> (<type>boolean</type>)</term>
        <indexterm><primary>Australian time zones</></>
        <listitem>
Index: src/backend/parser/parse_relation.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/backend/parser/parse_relation.c,v
retrieving revision 1.81
diff -c -c -r1.81 parse_relation.c
*** src/backend/parser/parse_relation.c	29 Apr 2003 22:13:10 -0000	1.81
--- src/backend/parser/parse_relation.c	11 Jun 2003 20:54:42 -0000
***************
*** 32,37 ****
--- 32,39 ----
  #include "utils/lsyscache.h"
  #include "utils/syscache.h"
  
+ /* GUC parameter */
+ bool add_missing_from;
  
  static Node *scanNameSpaceForRefname(ParseState *pstate, Node *nsnode,
  						const char *refname);
***************
*** 1861,1867 ****
  		}
  	}
  	if (foundInFromCl)
! 		elog(NOTICE, "Adding missing FROM-clause entry%s for table \"%s\"",
! 			 pstate->parentParseState != NULL ? " in subquery" : "",
! 			 relation->relname);
  }
--- 1863,1876 ----
  		}
  	}
  	if (foundInFromCl)
! 	{
! 		if (add_missing_from)
! 			elog(NOTICE, "Adding missing FROM-clause entry%s for table \"%s\"",
! 				 pstate->parentParseState != NULL ? " in subquery" : "",
! 				 relation->relname);
! 		else
! 			elog(ERROR, "Missing FROM-clause entry%s for table \"%s\"",
! 				 pstate->parentParseState != NULL ? " in subquery" : "",
! 				 relation->relname);
! 	}
  }
Index: src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c,v
retrieving revision 1.130
diff -c -c -r1.130 guc.c
*** src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c	11 Jun 2003 18:49:00 -0000	1.130
--- src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c	11 Jun 2003 20:54:49 -0000
***************
*** 43,48 ****
--- 43,49 ----
  #include "optimizer/paths.h"
  #include "optimizer/prep.h"
  #include "parser/parse_expr.h"
+ #include "parser/parse_relation.h"
  #include "storage/fd.h"
  #include "storage/freespace.h"
  #include "storage/lock.h"
***************
*** 550,559 ****
  		{"transaction_read_only", PGC_USERSET, GUC_NO_RESET_ALL}, &XactReadOnly,
  		false, NULL, NULL
  	},
  
  	{
  		{NULL, 0}, NULL, false, NULL, NULL
! 	}
  };
  
  
--- 551,565 ----
  		{"transaction_read_only", PGC_USERSET, GUC_NO_RESET_ALL}, &XactReadOnly,
  		false, NULL, NULL
  	},
+ 	{
+ 		{"add_missing_from", PGC_USERSET}, &add_missing_from,
+ 		true, NULL, NULL
+ 	},
  
+ 	/* End-of-list marker */
  	{
  		{NULL, 0}, NULL, false, NULL, NULL
! 	},
  };
  
  
***************
*** 742,747 ****
--- 748,754 ----
  		0, 0, INT_MAX / 1000, NULL, NULL
  	},
  
+ 	/* End-of-list marker */
  	{
  		{NULL, 0}, NULL, 0, 0, 0, NULL, NULL
  	}
***************
*** 784,789 ****
--- 791,797 ----
  		0.5, 0.0, 1.0, assign_random_seed, show_random_seed
  	},
  
+ 	/* End-of-list marker */
  	{
  		{NULL, 0}, NULL, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, NULL, NULL
  	}
***************
*** 946,951 ****
--- 954,960 ----
  		XLOG_sync_method_default, assign_xlog_sync_method, NULL
  	},
  
+ 	/* End-of-list marker */
  	{
  		{NULL, 0}, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL
  	}
Index: src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample,v
retrieving revision 1.80
diff -c -c -r1.80 postgresql.conf.sample
*** src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample	11 Jun 2003 18:01:14 -0000	1.80
--- src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample	11 Jun 2003 20:54:49 -0000
***************
*** 208,210 ****
--- 208,211 ----
  #statement_timeout = 0		# 0 is disabled, in milliseconds
  #db_user_namespace = false
  #preload_libraries = ''
+ #add_missing_from = true
Index: src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c,v
retrieving revision 1.78
diff -c -c -r1.78 tab-complete.c
*** src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c	11 Jun 2003 18:01:14 -0000	1.78
--- src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c	11 Jun 2003 20:54:52 -0000
***************
*** 492,497 ****
--- 492,498 ----
  		 * the rest should match USERSET and possibly SUSET entries in
  		 * backend/utils/misc/guc.c.
  		 */
+ 		"add_missing_from",
  		"australian_timezones",
  		"client_encoding",
  		"client_min_messages",
Index: src/include/parser/parse_relation.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql-server/src/include/parser/parse_relation.h,v
retrieving revision 1.39
diff -c -c -r1.39 parse_relation.h
*** src/include/parser/parse_relation.h	4 Sep 2002 20:31:45 -0000	1.39
--- src/include/parser/parse_relation.h	11 Jun 2003 20:54:52 -0000
***************
*** 16,21 ****
--- 16,23 ----
  
  #include "parser/parse_node.h"
  
+ extern bool add_missing_from;
+ 
  extern RangeTblEntry *refnameRangeTblEntry(ParseState *pstate,
  					 const char *schemaname,
  					 const char *refname,
#13Josh Berkus
josh@agliodbs.com
In reply to: Bruce Momjian (#12)
Re: [HACKERS] "Adding missing from clause" (replacement)

Bruce,

Does someone want to make an argument that this variable should default
to false rather than true, for standards compliance?

No. As much as I would like it to default to FALSE, we need to maintain
backward compatibility for one release. We can change the default in
7.5/8.0.

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-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

#14Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Josh Berkus (#13)
Re: [HACKERS] "Adding missing from clause" (replacement)

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:

Does someone want to make an argument that this variable should default
to false rather than true, for standards compliance?

No. As much as I would like it to default to FALSE, we need to maintain
backward compatibility for one release. We can change the default in
7.5/8.0.

Much further out than that.

regards, tom lane