warning for subquery that references a table but not its columns - Mailing list pgsql-general

I almost got bit by this today:

=> select email from subscribed where email not in (select email from tracks);
 email
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(0 rows)

=> select email from subscribed where email not in (select tracks.email from tracks);
ERROR:  column tracks.email does not exist
LINE 1: ... email from subscribed where email not in (select tracks.ema...

(the "tracks" table doesn't have an "email" column, so the first query is just meaningless)

Should there be a warning for the first query that you reference "tracks" in a subquery but don't use any columns from
it?

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