On Tue, 4 May 2004, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 18:50:09 +0000,
> Bradley Kieser <brad@kieser.net> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Is this the correct place to submit a bug report or should I do it
> > somewhere else?
>
> Bugs go to pgsql-bugs, how I don't think this is really a bug, but
> a "feature".
>
> >
> > BUG DETAILS:
> >
> > PG version 7.4.2
> > Platform: Linux
> >
> > BUG DESC:
> >
> > Using aliases in the "select" part of a select clause isn't strongly
> > checked against the alias definitions in the FROM part of the SQL.
> > Specifically, if the alias in the "select" clause matches another table
> > name (not in the FROM list), then the select is applied against that
> > other table whereas the correct action would be to chuck and error.
> >
> > EXAMPLE:
> >
> > One table: acct_dets
> > One view: acct_dets_view created as select * from acct_dets_table where XXXX
> >
> > Select acct_dets.aaa, acct_dets.bbb from acct_dets_view;
> >
> > The above select is accepted and processed when it SHOULD throw an error.
>
> Postgres has a feature where tables not listed in FROM clauses get silently
> included. There is something that turns this off, but I think it is
> only available in the development version. This feature is really only
> useful for delete where there isn't a syntax to specify addition tables
> and you need to use a subquery instead. A number of people didn't like the
> way it works now as that usually when you end up using this feature
> it is a mistake in the query rather than intentional use.
It's in 7.4 and it's called:
#add_missing_from = true
uncomment that and set it to false and it should error out as expected.
