By the way, when I say "could be added back in", I am not volunteering
to do the work, only letting you know that you could probably figure
out how to submit patches to do this by looking at Cayenne 2 code and
porting to Cayenne 3.
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Mike Kienenberger <mkienen..mail.com> wrote:
> Yes, you need Oracle 9 before that syntax is understood.
>
> Oracle 8 only understands select * from t1, t2 where t1.x = t2.x. I
> suppose the old oracle inner join support could be added back in.
>
> Outer join support is even worse for 8, and not implementable for all
> practical purposes.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Bryan Lewis <jbryanlewi..mail.com> wrote:
>> We have some apps running on an Oracle 8i database. Wow, almost 10 years
>> old. Cayenne 2 has been working great. When I tried updating to Cayenne 3,
>> I got a syntax error in a particular bit of SQL with a JOIN. This isn't an
>> urgent problem for us but I thought I'd mention it.
>>
>> We have an Employee entity with a many-to-many relationship to Role. With a
>> join table called Employee_Role.
>>
>> List roles = employee.getRoles();
>> Role role = roles.get(0);
>>
>> The first fetch works but resolving the first element generates this SQL:
>>
>> SELECT DISTINCT t0.* FROM ROLE t0
>> JOIN EMPLOYEE_ROLE t1 ON
>> (t0.ROLE_ID = t1.ROLE_ID)
>> WHERE t1.EMPLOYEE_ID = ? [bind: 1:312]
>>
>> Oracle 8i doesn't understand that JOIN...ON syntax and throws:
>>
>> java.sql.SQLException: ORA-00933: SQL command not properly ended
>>
>> The same code works fine on PostgreSQL with almost the same generated SQL.
>>
>
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