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Yaroslav Tykhiy wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Sorry but I've got yet another issue to discuss today, this time that  
> on schema search path.  In fact it may not be a bug, but it may be  
> worth a note in the documentation.
> 
> It seems that if the table in SELECT FROM has an explicit schema  
> specifier, further references to the same table name will implicitly  
> inherit it.  E.g., this query will be valid because the second  
> reference will be to foo.bar not public.bar:
> 
> SELECT * FROM foo.bar WHERE bar.a=1;
>                              ^^^ this means foo.bar

No one has ever complained about this before.

> As just shown, this can be even more confusing with nested queries.
> 
> Do you think it's a feature or a bug? :-)

Feature, and SQL-standard behavior.

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