Re: Invalid SQL not rejected?

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Craig James <cjames@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Hmmm.... the subselect is invalid, but not rejected.  The outer select
> returns every row in the customer_order_matches table.  This seems pretty
> wrong. This is PG 9.2.1 running on Ubuntu.

> db=> select count(1) from customer_order_matches where
> customer_order_item_id in (select customer_order_item_id from
> customer_order where customer_order_id = 105862140);
>  count
> -------
>  36180
> (1 row)

Unfortunately, if customer_order_item_id doesn't exist in
customer_order, that's still a perfectly valid outer reference
to customer_order_matches.customer_order_item_id.  People get
confused by that kind of thing regularly, but it's required by
spec to work like this.

			regards, tom lane


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