Hi, I'm writing a new custom dialect for a legacy database (Centura
SQLBase 7.5.1) for use in migrating to a new system over time.
Everything's gone pretty well, until I needed a join...

Whereas most dialects would create a statement such as:

SELECT T1.ID, T1.COL1, T2.COL2
FROM T1 JOIN T2
ON T1.ID = T2.ID
WHERE T1.ID = 100

, (at least this flavor of) SQLBase expects it to be like so:

SELECT T1.ID, T1.COL1, T2.COL2
FROM T1, T2
WHERE T1.ID = T2.ID
AND T1.ID = 100

And in fact "JOIN" isn't even one of their reserved words, so sending
it a statement like the first example will of course cause an error.
I've subclassed sqlalchemy.sql.compiler.SQLCompiler in the hopes of
overriding the visit_join method for my dialect, but I'm not sure it's
possible to achieve what I'm after this way?  I can of course replace
the " JOIN " text with ", " but if I replace " ON " with " WHERE "
then all of a sudden the final statement has two WHERE clauses and is
thus invalid for a whole new reason.

Is there a way to override the visit_join method to accomplish my goal
or should I be looking somewhere else?  (I assume I can add custom
@properties to my data class, for instance.  I'd like to solve the
"bigger" problem here but if I can't then I really just need a way
past this particular problem.)  TIA, I really appreciate any help.

Lance

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