Re: [HACKERS] New TODO item

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: "PostgreSQL-development"(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] New TODO item
Date: 1999-06-17 22:41:57
Message-ID: 199906172243.SAA05469@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > New item for TODO list:
> > * SELECT aliname FROM pg_class aliname generates strange error
>
> You don't need the alias; "SELECT pg_class FROM pg_class" generates
> the same behavior.

TODO updated.

>
> Looks to me like the parser is failing to reject this query as malformed.
> transformIdent() is willing to take either a column name or a relation
> name (why?), and no one upstream is rejecting the relation-name case.

There is some reason for this that I think Thomas can tell us.

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