From: Michael Glaesemann <grzm@seespotcode.net>
To: Shoaib Mir <shoaibmir@gmail.com>
Cc: Postgres SQL language list <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: subquery abnormal behavior
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:03:27 +0900
Message-ID: <EE83C543-2CCD-41CD-8AEA-BD337673FF7B@seespotcode.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bf54be870612102248j33f63ca1gd89e76d536a0262c@mail.gmail.com>
References: <bf54be870612102248j33f63ca1gd89e76d536a0262c@mail.gmail.com>
On Dec 11, 2006, at 15:48 , Shoaib Mir wrote:
> create table myt1 (a numeric);
> create table myt2 (b numeric);
>
> select a from myt1 where a in (select a from myt2);
>
> This should be giving an error that column 'a' does not exist in
> myt2 but it runs with any error...
The a in the IN clause is the same a in outer expression. This is in
effect:
select a from myt1 where a = a;
Now, if you were to say
select a from myt1 where a in (select myt2.a from myt2);
ERROR: column myt2.a does not exist
LINE 1: select a from myt1 where a in (select myt2.a from myt2);
And if you were to instead have
create table myt1 (a numeric);
CREATE TABLE
create table myt2 (b numeric);
CREATE TABLE
insert into myt1(a) values (1), (2);
INSERT 0 2
insert into myt2 (b) values (3), (4), (2);
INSERT 0 3
create table myt3 (a numeric);
CREATE TABLE
insert into myt3 (a) values (2), (3),(4);
INSERT 0 3
test=# select a from myt1 where a in (select a from myt3);
a
---
2
(1 row)
It looks like PostgreSQL treats it as a natural join like
select a from myt1 natural join myt3;
Hope this helps.
Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net
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