Disallow LATERAL references to the target table of an UPDATE/DELETE.
On second thought, commit 0c051c90082da0b7e5bcaf9aabcbd4f361137cdc was
over-hasty: rather than allowing this case, we ought to reject it for now.
That leaves the field clear for a future feature that allows the target
table to be re-specified in the FROM (or USING) clause, which will enable
left-joining the target table to something else. We can then also allow
LATERAL references to such an explicitly re-specified target table.
But allowing them right now will create ambiguities or worse for such a
feature, and it isn't something we documented 9.3 as supporting.
While at it, add a convenience subroutine to avoid having several copies
of the ereport for disalllowed-LATERAL-reference cases.
Branch
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master
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/158b7fa6a34006bdc70b515e14e120d3e896589b
Modified Files
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src/backend/parser/analyze.c | 12 ++++---
src/backend/parser/parse_relation.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------
src/include/parser/parse_node.h | 3 +-
src/test/regress/expected/join.out | 48 +++++++++++----------------
src/test/regress/sql/join.sql | 13 ++++----
5 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)