Somebody forgot to include any actual documentation for ADD_MISSING_FROM.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
index 6adfd85df0f9d05536636285e15c385728edfbe7..c3c42309b64440d8a176d105526a520095d26441 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
 
@@ -2396,6 +2396,14 @@ dynamic_library_path = '/usr/local/lib/postgresql:/home/my_project/lib:$libdir'
       missing from
       
        
+        When true, tables that are referenced by a query will be
+   automatically added to the FROM clause if not already
+   present.  The default is true for compatibility with
+   previous releases of PostgreSQL.  However, this
+   behavior is not SQL-standard, and many people dislike it because it
+   can mask mistakes.  Set to false for the SQL-standard
+   behavior of rejecting references to tables that are not listed in
+   FROM.
        
       
      

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
index 2ff904510ca760565ce2d4c00885f07f9a2bf181..c3c85354ca98a2c556df656248c0b74f199a6de5 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  * Written by Peter Eisentraut .
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *   $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c,v 1.149 2003/08/11 23:04:49 tgl Exp $
+ *   $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c,v 1.150 2003/08/17 22:19:15 tgl Exp $
  *
  *--------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -818,7 +818,7 @@ static struct config_bool ConfigureNamesBool[] =
    },
    {
        {"add_missing_from", PGC_USERSET, COMPAT_OPTIONS_PREVIOUS,
-           gettext_noop("Add missing table references to from clauses"),
+           gettext_noop("Add missing table references to FROM clauses"),
            NULL
        },
        &add_missing_from,