As for your other comments, sounds like we are in agreement on (1) and (3), but just weigh pros/cons differently. > 2) That's not at all clear from your exampl

As for your other comments, sounds like we are in agreement on (1) and (3), but just weigh pros/cons differently. > 2) That's not at all clear from your example. Nor does it necessarily follow from the proposal in general Can you provide a counter-example that will not be conciser when written using the foreign key join syntax?