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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2002-12-27 20:06:19 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2002-12-27 20:06:19 +0000
commita8a820668aa512b06cf4bc32e0a74d57c4908dc9 (patch)
tree5bdbf01916b8a59cd10ed04067a46b3664931d9d /src
parent6c08905d4c07d2215c2fb09aca6b877bb161c915 (diff)
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Deliver better error message when a relation name is used in an expression.
Per report from Ian Barwick.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c b/src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c
index db0667ef16e..9705ca5d7de 100644
--- a/src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c
+++ b/src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c,v 1.137 2002/12/12 20:35:13 tgl Exp $
+ * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/parser/parse_expr.c,v 1.138 2002/12/27 20:06:19 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -934,6 +934,7 @@ exprType(Node *expr)
if (!qtree || !IsA(qtree, Query))
elog(ERROR, "exprType: Cannot get type for untransformed sublink");
tent = (TargetEntry *) lfirst(qtree->targetList);
+ Assert(IsA(tent, TargetEntry));
type = tent->resdom->restype;
}
else
@@ -967,6 +968,16 @@ exprType(Node *expr)
case T_ConstraintTestValue:
type = ((ConstraintTestValue *) expr)->typeId;
break;
+ case T_RangeVar:
+ /*
+ * If someone uses a bare relation name in an expression,
+ * we will likely first notice a problem here (see comments in
+ * transformColumnRef()). Issue an appropriate error message.
+ */
+ elog(ERROR, "Relation reference \"%s\" cannot be used in an expression",
+ ((RangeVar *) expr)->relname);
+ type = InvalidOid; /* keep compiler quiet */
+ break;
default:
elog(ERROR, "exprType: Do not know how to get type for %d node",
nodeTag(expr));