From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, "lxndrkrlv(at)gmail(dot)com" <lxndrkrlv(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: BUG #17233: Incorrect behavior of DELETE command with bad subquery in WHERE clause |
Date: | 2022-08-18 21:52:08 |
Message-ID: | 2792105.1660859528@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Feedback?
> -- test some error cases where LATERAL should have been used but wasn't
> select f1,g from int4_tbl a, (select f1 as g) ss;
> ERROR: column "f1" does not exist
> LINE 1: select f1,g from int4_tbl a, (select f1 as g) ss;
> ^
> -HINT: There is a column named "f1" in table "a", but it cannot be referenced from this part of the query.
> +HINT: There is a column named "f1" in table "a" and another table so a table-qualified column reference is required.
That one has gone from accurate to completely wrong. First, it's not
the case that there's more than one possible referent, and second,
table-qualifying the reference wouldn't help. What *would* help here
is adding LATERAL, but I'm not sure if we can easily tell whether that
is the case.
I think perhaps the existing message is mislabeled: it's not a hint
as written, but errdetail, because it's entirely factual. For this
particular example, what would be on-point is
DETAIL: There is a column named "f1" in table "a", but it cannot be referenced from this part of the query.
HINT: To reference that column, you must mark this subquery with LATERAL.
While we don't insist that hints be 100% accurate, it's not good
if they're wildly unhelpful. So I'm not sure if we can determine
whether or not it's likely to be on-point.
I didn't look too closely at your other examples.
regards, tom lane
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