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[–] 30p87@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why is it only a yellow warning, and not a red one?

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's an edge case where you want the guys in balaclavas to show up.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When you hope they're dyslexic and show up with delicious baklavas instead.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 7 points 1 week ago

That's how I read it at first

[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

To add. The specific edge case where you want to do the balaclava thing is when you are concatenating internally generated column and table names, operators, and entire conditions with extra parameters that you will add the correct way.