Waiting for 8.4 – TABLE

On Thursday, 20th of November, Peter Eisentraut committed his own patch, which adds new command to PostgreSQL: TABLE.

While this command doesn't do anything that wasn't available earlier, it's worth mentioning, as it's one of patches that make PostgreSQL compatible with SQL:2008.

Basically new command “TABLE" acts like an alias to ‘SELECT * FROM':

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