id like to move to github completely and I wish bitbucket had a way to
turn off pull requests (they don't).   So please use github pull
requests, thanks!

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 9:45 AM,  <nicolas.ro...@tiime.fr> wrote:
>
>> I'm not going to choose a random table like that.   the DB needs to
>> support running this kind of query correctly.  This is just PG and
>> MySQL.   we have all the others to see how badly they screw this up
>> also.
>
>
> I naively thought that the statement 'SELECT 1 WHERE 1 != 1" would work on
> any DB, but it seems it won't be the case as it is a syntax error on mariaDB
> (and I guess on some other DB then).
>
> However any BD implementing IN predicate accepting a subquery as the list
> must implement a coherent way to deal with empty list on IN (or at least
> send a proper error message), as a subquery producting an empty result is a
> perfectly valid query.
>
> So this "trick" might be adaptable to all DB (I didn't managed to find the
> doc of IN for synbase and oracle so I can't tell for them).
> Moreover sqlite, postgres, myqsl and mariaDB agree on the (NULL IN () ==
> False) question, so letting the DB create the empty list shouldn't lead too
> much to a "SQLAlchemy is not abstracting differences between the
> databases!!".
>
> The statement "SELECT 1 FROM ((SELECT 1) as placeholder_table) WHERE 1!=1;"
> is more promising, as (sqlite, postgres, myqsl and mariaDB) all accept it,
> and any DB that accept a select query as a valid table too (it looks like
> Microsoft SQL server will accept it too, can't say for firebird, oracle or
> sybase as I found niether a doc or a way to make it run).
>
>
> What is the procedure to propose a PR (with tests obviously) ? Issues are
> supposed to be in bitbucket, but most PR are on the github
>
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