Re: Dangerous Naming Confusion - Mailing list pgsql-general

From David G. Johnston
Subject Re: Dangerous Naming Confusion
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Msg-id CAKFQuwa9MyYhhdJEp0GROQ+7VNo6P679pbWJ0nbZnZ4_H3O8sA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Dangerous Naming Confusion  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>)
Responses Re: Dangerous Naming Confusion  (Don Seiler <don@seiler.us>)
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 3:20 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.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:


David J.

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