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Disallow LATERAL references to the target table of an UPDATE/DELETE.

On second thought, commit 0c051c9008 was
over-hasty: rather than allowing this case, we ought to reject it for now.
That leaves the field clear for a future feature that allows the target
table to be re-specified in the FROM (or USING) clause, which will enable
left-joining the target table to something else.  We can then also allow
LATERAL references to such an explicitly re-specified target table.
But allowing them right now will create ambiguities or worse for such a
feature, and it isn't something we documented 9.3 as supporting.

While at it, add a convenience subroutine to avoid having several copies
of the ereport for disalllowed-LATERAL-reference cases.
This commit is contained in:
Tom Lane
2014-01-11 19:03:15 -05:00
parent 5bfcc9ec5e
commit 27ff4cfe76
5 changed files with 72 additions and 66 deletions

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@@ -185,7 +185,8 @@ struct ParseState
* inside such a subexpression at the moment.) If p_lateral_ok is not set,
* it's an error to actually use such a namespace item. One might think it
* would be better to just exclude such items from visibility, but the wording
* of SQL:2008 requires us to do it this way.
* of SQL:2008 requires us to do it this way. We also use p_lateral_ok to
* forbid LATERAL references to an UPDATE/DELETE target table.
*
* At no time should a namespace list contain two entries that conflict
* according to the rules in checkNameSpaceConflicts; but note that those