On Wednesday 15 December 2010 1:27:19 pm David Fetter wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 01:50:54PM -0600, Jack Christensen wrote: > > I was just surprised when accidentally selecting a non-existent name > > column there was no error -- instead something came back. > > > > select accounts.name from accounts limit 1 -> > > (1,65522,1,0.00,,"2010-07-22 09:57:26.281172-05",2) > > > > It appears it tries to return the entire row in an array (but longer > > rows get truncated). > > > > I've searched Google and the PG docs but I haven't had any luck. > > What happened here is that you ran into PostgreSQL's "charming" habit > of using the argument.function notation, so you called the "name" > function, i.e. the one that casts to name, on the entire row from your > accounts table. > > Cheers, > David. > In the for what is worth department that behavior is going away in 9.1. See here for a detailed explanation: http://www.depesz.com/index.php/2010/11/08/waiting-for-9-1-removed-autocast-footgun/#more-1908 -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
