Tom Lane wrote:
Quite aside from the compatibility and how-useful-is-it-really arguments, I think this'd be a bad idea in the abstract. SQL is not one of those languages that assigns semantic significance to the shape of whitespace [1]. We should NOT introduce any such concept into psql, because it'd fundamentally break the lexical structure of the language.
+1 Regards, Thomas Hallgren ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match