Re: [SQL] weird exists behaviour

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Daniel Lopez <ridruejo(at)atm9(dot)com(dot)dtu(dot)dk>, pgsql-sql(at)hub(dot)org
Subject: Re: [SQL] weird exists behaviour
Date: 1999-09-23 15:40:24
Message-ID: 199909231540.LAA17079@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Note to hackers: here is another example of people getting confused
> by automatic addition of FROM clauses. The same query can behave
> differently depending on whether it is a sub-query or not: a free
> table name might get bound to a table of the outer query, or generate
> an implicit FROM clause in the standalone case, yielding very different
> result sets.

I think we need to issue an elog(NOTICE) when we create a table entry on
the fly.

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