On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, James Robinson wrote: > Why in the world does this statement parse and run: > > orig_sav=# delete from realtycompany_contacts where contact_id in > (select contact_id from users); > DELETE 1634 > > Since users has *no* column contact_id ? One would expect the statement > to fail, and the transaction to get rolled back.
AFAIK the spec requires that subselects like that can reference outer columns so contact_id inside the subselect refers to the outer contact_id column which does exist (which makes the effective behavior of the above clause the same as contact_id is not null I think) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly