On Sunday, April 27, 2025, Tim Starling <
tstarling@wikimedia.org> wrote:
thus allowing it to DWIM.
We intentionally choose (or, in any case have established) a SWYM approach here.
Personally I’d be fine with the reduced helpfulness in trying to prevent buggy queries in the interest of being more conforming with the broader world. I am curious as to whether we are in strict adherence to the SQL Standard on this point though. Makes deviation a bit tougher to justify.
It does seem that project policies would prevent back-patching such a change.
David J.