"Sergey Manakov" <vial...@gmail.com> writes: > I have some table with column named "remark" and without column named > "text". I wrote SQL where try to select column named "text" by mistake:
> SELECT st.text > FROM sometable st > Where error expected, but query executed without error! Query result is one > column contains text representation of ROWs. > Is this a bug, or I'am look for description in docs badly? No, it's not a bug. It's equivalent to text(st) or st::text, that is the system thinks you're requesting a coercion of the rowtype value to text. The syntactic equivalence of f(foo) and foo.f is documented near the end of section 34.4.2: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/xfunc-sql.html#AEN43797 regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
