On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 09:19, Tom Lane wrote: > "Thomas Peter" <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > the full code that does produce the error (and this error can be resolved > > as in OP described) is: > > Never oversimplify a bug report. > > > FROM ticket as t, permission as perm, enum as p > > LEFT OUTER JOIN ticket_custom c ON (t.id = c.ticket AND c.name = > > 'fachabteilung') > > The above is, plain and simple, wrong. According to the SQL spec, > JOIN binds more tightly than comma in a FROM-list, so what you had was > > FROM ..., (enum as p > LEFT OUTER JOIN ticket_custom c ON (t.id = c.ticket AND c.name = > 'fachabteilung')) > > which of course fails because only p and c are visible in the JOIN's > ON condition. You fixed it by moving "t" to become part of the JOIN > structure. > > I was aware that MySQL parses this sort of structure wrongly, but it's > disappointing to hear that sqlite does too :-( And I think MySQL fixed this abberant behaviour in the newest beta.