On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 06:46:42PM +0000, Lon Varscsak wrote: > delete from customer_transactions_detail where transaction_id in (select > transaction_id from test); > The transaction_id column does NOT exist in the temporary table named > 'test'). I would think this would just result in an error, instead it > delete all rows in the customer_transactions_detail table.
what you got is so called "correlated subquery", and is perfectly valid - even if it's surprising sometimes. i wrote about it in more details in here: http://www.depesz.com/index.php/2007/09/06/postgresql-gotchas/ anyway - it's definitely not a bug. depesz -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
