Re: undocumented feature or bug in subquery : psql (PostgreSQL) 9.4.6 on SLES12 SP1

otter117(at)yahoo(dot)de writes:
> 2 tables a and b
> Table "public.a"
> Column | Type | Modifiers
> -----------------+--------------------------+---------------
> foo | integer | not null
> bar | integer | not null

> Table "public.b"
> Column | Type | Modifiers
> -----------------+--------------------------+---------------
> bar | integer | not null

> No error when executing this statement even though table b does not contain
> column foo
> SELECT foo,bar FROM a WHERE foo=1 AND bar NOT IN (SELECT bar FROM b WHERE
> bar > 2 AND foo=2)

No, but table a does, and that's a legal outer reference per the SQL
standard. This is neither a bug nor undocumented.

> Do I need to qualify all columns in the subquery or is this a bug is psql
> 9.4.6?

It's often wise to qualify column references in multi-table queries
(subqueries or not) to ensure they are referencing what you think
they're referencing.

regards, tom lane