From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: gry@ll.mit.edu
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: trecherous subselect needs warning?
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:39:17 -0500
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In-Reply-To: <20060207141751.38effa97.gry@ll.mit.edu>
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george young <gry@ll.mit.edu> writes:
> How about a *documentation* suggestion that sub-queries can be
> very dangerous if one doesn't qualify all column references?
> Maybe with an example like the one that bit me?
I have no objection to a documentation example, but there isn't any
obvious place where it would fit in the manual. Perhaps some sort
of "SQL gotchas" webpage on techdocs would be appropriate.
regards, tom lane
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