db(query).select(*fields)

is supposed to translated into

SELECT *fields (from TABLE) WHERE query

where TABLES are inferred automatically from fields or from query. In principle 
one can have fields without a query (no WHERE) and a query without fields 
(select *).


On Oct 31, 2014, at 3:12 PM, Niphlod <niph...@gmail.com> wrote:

> +1: never coded with that syntax and it feels unnatural to me.
> 
> On Friday, October 31, 2014 8:47:44 PM UTC+1, Leonel Câmara wrote:
> In my opinion this bug is caused by bad design that complicates things 
> unnecessarily. Why are we allowing users to ask for fields in the select for 
> tables they haven't included in the query?
> 
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