Re: Subselect strange behaviour - bug?

From: Mario Splivalo <mario(dot)splivalo(at)megafon(dot)hr>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Subselect strange behaviour - bug?
Date: 2008-03-17 12:04:43
Message-ID: 47DE5E5B.60203@megafon.hr
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Mario Splivalo <mario(dot)splivalo(at)megafon(dot)hr> writes:
>
>> And here is the 'problematic' query:
>> melem=# select * from t2 where id1 in (select id1 from t1);
>>
>> I guess postgres should tell me that column name id1 is nonexistant in
>> table t1.
>>
>
> No, it shouldn't, because that's a perfectly legal outer reference;
> that is, what you wrote is equivalent to
> select * from t2 where id1 in (select t2.id1 from t1);
>
>
Huh, you're right. Appologies for the noise :)

Mario

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