Re: Dangerous Naming Confusion

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Dangerous Naming Confusion
Date: 2021-03-29 22:22:13
Message-ID: CAKFQuwa9MyYhhdJEp0GROQ+7VNo6P679pbWJ0nbZnZ4_H3O8sA@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 3:20 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
wrote:

> On 3/29/21 3:00 PM, Don Seiler wrote:
> >
> > I'm wondering if this is expected behavior that PG uses the
> > dts_orders.order_id value in the subquery "select order_id from
> > dts_temp" when dts_temp doesn't have its own order_id column. I would
> > have expected an error that the column doesn't exist. Seems very
> > counter-intuitive to think PG would use a column from a different table.
>
> See:
>
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/Pine.LNX.4.56.0308011345320.881@krusty.credativ.de
>
>
There is also an FAQ entry:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/FAQ#Why_doesn.27t_PostgreSQL_report_a_column_not_found_error_when_using_the_wrong_name_in_a_subquery.3F

David J.

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