Re: Assertion failure due to ColumnRefStar - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Assertion failure due to ColumnRefStar
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Msg-id 29363.1190904719@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Assertion failure due to ColumnRefStar  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>)
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Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> NikhilS wrote:
>> One of our qmg folks reported an assertion failure:
>> create table x(y char(1));
>> insert into x  values ("*");
>> 
>> The above causes the following assertion to be hit:

> Works for me on CVS HEAD. Which version of Postgres is this?

I see the assert failure here --- maybe you were testing a non-assert
build?

The problem here is that in the output of the grammar, * is represented
exactly the same as "*" would be ... I suppose this representation was
chosen back in the day before we had full support for quoted column
names.
        regards, tom lane


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