Re: select from sequences

From: "Jaime Casanova" <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: select from sequences
Date: 2007-02-12 04:58:26
Message-ID: c2d9e70e0702112058t22602ba0h3b0ce43a7f1bdb6f@mail.gmail.com
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On 2/11/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> "Jaime Casanova" <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > just for curiosity, why the code doesn't throw an error when using
> > sequences in the from_list of a select?
>
> That's a feature, not a bug.
>

and why is this a feature? i mean, what real use it has?

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Jaime Casanova

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