Re: BUG #2112: query kills db thread - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #2112: query kills db thread
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Msg-id 12532.1134533710@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to BUG #2112: query kills db thread  ("Jim Dew" <jdew@yggdrasil.ca>)
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"Jim Dew" <jdew@yggdrasil.ca> writes:
> Stumbled upon a (broken) query that causes the 8.1.0 thread handling the
> query to die:
> select foo from (select null) as foo

Confirmed here --- will look into it.  Thanks for the report!

> Now, this query just produces an error on 8.0.3

However, there's something rotten in the state of Denmark in 8.0 too:

regression=# select foo from (select null) as foo;
ERROR:  subquery foo does not have attribute 0

7.4 gives what I'd consider a reasonable error message:

regression=# select foo from (select null) as foo;
ERROR:  relation reference "foo" cannot be used as a select-list entry
HINT:  Write "foo".* to denote all the columns of the relation.

Maybe we need a regression test to exercise this case, because it seems
we've been backsliding on this rather badly ...

            regards, tom lane

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