I have two tables, 'configured' like this:
melem=# \d t1 Table "public.t1"Column | Type | Modifiers
--------+-------------------+-----------id | integer |value | character varying |
melem=# \d t2 Table "public.t2"Column | Type | Modifiers
--------+-------------------+-----------id1 | integer |value | character varying |
And here is the data from both tables:
melem=# select * from t1;id | value
----+------- 1 | 1 2 | 2 3 | 3
(3 rows)
melem=# select * from t2;id1 | value
-----+------- 1 | 1 2 | 2 3 | 3 4 | 4
(4 rows)
And here is the 'problematic' query:
melem=# select * from t2 where id1 in (select id1 from t1);id1 | value
-----+------- 1 | 1 2 | 2 3 | 3 4 | 4
(4 rows)
I guess postgres should tell me that column name id1 is nonexistant in
table t1.
Now, if I change subselect to select correct column name, everything is ok:
melem=# select * from t2 where id1 in (select id from t1);id1 | value
-----+------- 1 | 1 2 | 2 3 | 3
(3 rows)
I have found out that this 'error' pops up only if the columns in both
subselect query and the 'super'select query are the same. For instance:
melem=# select * from t2 where id1 in (select id2 from t1);
ERROR: column "id2" does not exist
LINE 1: select * from t2 where id1 in (select id2 from t1); ^
melem=#
I have tested this on postgres 8.3.0, 8.2.6 and 8.2.4, and the results
are the same. I donwloaded the sources for three mentioned versions of
postgres, and built it on Linux 2.6.22-14 (Ubuntu 7.10) using gcc 4.1.3,
as well as on Debian stable (Linux 2.6.22.1 with gcc 4.1.2).
Mario