Hi Adrian, 2010/3/9 Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Tuesday 09 March 2010 12:50:45 am Ian Barwick wrote: >> Hi >> >> I was wondering where some spurious information in a query was >> coming from - it looked like something was inserting all the >> values of a table row as a comma-separated list. >> >> It turns out I was attempting to reference a non-existent column >> called (literally) "name", which instead of throwing an error produces >> the aforementioned list. This only seems to happen with "name", and >> only if it is referenced with the table name or alias. >> >> Ian Barwick > > See this recent thread for explanation: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2010-02/msg01038.php Thanks for the info, apologies for the delay in replying. Certainly explains what's going on, though it seems a bit of a "gotcha". Regards Ian Barwick -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general