BUG in temp tables involving a temp table not properly hiding a regular table as well as allowing non-existent column names

From: Frank van Vugt <ftm(dot)van(dot)vugt(at)foxi(dot)nl>
To: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: BUG in temp tables involving a temp table not properly hiding a regular table as well as allowing non-existent column names
Date: 2005-06-07 16:06:32
Message-ID: 200506071806.34914.ftm.van.vugt@foxi.nl
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L.S.

Looking forward to your analysis of the following bug:

database=# select version();
version
------------------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on i586-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.2.3
(1 row)

****
**** START HERE TO REPRODUCE
****

CREATE TYPE full_sequence_type AS (id int);
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION full_sequence(integer, integer)
RETURNS SETOF full_sequence_type
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'
IMMUTABLE
STRICT
SECURITY INVOKER
AS ' DECLARE
my_from ALIAS FOR $1;
my_to ALIAS FOR $2;
result full_sequence_type%ROWTYPE;
BEGIN
-- just loop
FOR i IN my_from..my_to LOOP
result.id = i;
RETURN NEXT result;
END LOOP;

-- finish
RETURN;
END;';

-- create a regular table and show that it holds 100 records
create table f1 as select id as id2 from full_sequence(1, 100);
-- show that it holds 100 records
select count(*) from f1;

-- create a regular table and show that it holds 100 records
create temp table f1 as select id as id2 from full_sequence(1, 100);
select count(*) from f1;

-- remove 99 records from the temp table and show that 1 row remains
delete from f1 where id2 > 1;
select count(*) from f1;

-- try to select a non-existent column, show that it fails
select id from f1;
ERROR: column "id" does not exist

-- however, the following query will happily run AND return a wrong result
-- based on the regular table instead of the temporary one
select count(*) from full_sequence(1, 100) where id in (select id from f1);
count
-------
100
(1 row)

****
**** USE THIS TO CLEANUP
****

DROP FUNCTION full_sequence(integer, integer);
DROP TYPE full_sequence_type;
DROP TABLE f1;
DROP TABLE f1;

--
Best,

Frank.

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