"Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> One significant MSAccess <==> Postgres conflict is that Postgres assumes that
> parens in the FROM clause represent subselects (I think),
Huh? Parenthesizing JOINs is perfectly valid, and I think it's good
style too in complex cases. See the nearby "SQL Joins" thread for
an example of a query that's quite unreadable without 'em.
regards, tom lane