Re: [HACKERS] New TODO item

> > 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.

Moi? Why drag me into this? ;)

I'm not recalling why we would want to handle bare relation names in
an expression, but it does seem that a flag is being set in
transformIdent() which one could test later to verify that you have a
column. afaik this code predates my contributions, so I don't have
much insight into it. (It is true that there are a few extensions to
the SQL syntax which are holdovers from the PostQuel language, which
explains a few odd features in the parser.)

Would you prefer that we do nothing until I have a chance to research
this some more, or is someone going to dive in?

- Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
South Pasadena, California