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Daniel John Debrunner commented on DERBY-3355:
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I'm not sure those quote examples prove anything, not a single one is executed 
after the table has rows in it, which is where the bug originally was.

My guess is that is does not work. The column name in the alter table is 
"""c""2", which will be converted to "c"2 internally (as a Java string),
then the SELECT to check the constraint will use   ""c"2" which will cause a 
syntax error.

When writing an identifier as an input for a SQL statement as well as making it 
delimited value needs to have its double quotes escaped (by using two double 
quotes). Either no Derby code does this or there is a utility somewhere to 
output the CNF of an identifier in a form acceptable to a SQL statement.

Good thinking to raise the issue though.

> Alter Column ... NULL ignores double quotes around column name
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DERBY-3355
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-3355
>             Project: Derby
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 10.3.1.4
>         Environment: mac 0s x
>            Reporter: geoff hendrey
>            Assignee: Bryan Pendleton
>         Attachments: patch.diff
>
>
> ' is not a column in the target table., SQL State: 42X04, Error Code: -1
> Hi:
> I think I have isolated a bug involving the use of double quotes to define a 
> column name. Here s the SQL to reproduce the bug, followed by the error 
> message generated by the final SQL statement. In order to make the bug go 
> away, eliminate all use of double quotes in the SQL statements below. Note 
> that the identical alter statement succeeds before the insert, and fail 
> after. I have spent a long time trying to isolate this problem, so please 
> take a look.
> CREATE TABLE Table2
> (
>    "c" VARCHAR(32672)
> );
> alter table Table2 ALTER COLUMN "c" NULL;
> alter table Table2 ALTER COLUMN "c" NOT NULL;
> INSERT INTO Table2("c") VALUES('yo');
> alter table Table2 ALTER COLUMN "c" NULL;
> alter table Table2 ALTER COLUMN "c" NOT NULL;
> Query 1 of 6 elapsed time (seconds) - Total: 0.012, SQL query: 0.012, 
> Building output: 0
> Query 2 of 6 elapsed time (seconds) - Total: 0.003, SQL query: 0.003, 
> Building output: 0
> Query 3 of 6 elapsed time (seconds) - Total: 0.003, SQL query: 0.003, 
> Building output: 0
> 1 Row(s) Inserted
> Query 4 of 6 elapsed time (seconds) - Total: 0.009, SQL query: 0.009, 
> Building output: 0
> Query 5 of 6 elapsed time (seconds) - Total: 0.003, SQL query: 0.003, 
> Building output: 0
> Error: java.sql.SQLException: Column 'C' is either not in any table in the 
> FROM list or appears within a join specification and is outside the scope of 
> the join specification or appears in a HAVING clause and is not in the GROUP 
> BY list. If this is a CREATE or ALTER TABLE  statement then 'C' is not a 
> column in the target table., SQL State: 42X04, Error Code: -1
> -----Inline Message Follows-----
> Geoff hendrey wrote:
> > I think I have isolated a bug involving the use of double quotes to
> > define a column name.
> Hi Geoff, I agree, that is definitely a bug. Your script reproduces
> the problem for me, on the current Derby trunk.
> It appears that AlterTableConstantAction.validateNotNullConstraint
> is internally generating and executing a statement of the form:
>     select count(*) from tab where not (col is not null)
> The code which generates this SQL staement is not properly enclosing
> the column name in double quotes, as you noticed, so the compiler
> converts the column name to upper case, and gets the no-such-column error.
> Can you open a problem report in Jira so that we can track this down
> and get it fixed?
> http://db.apache.org/derby/DerbyBugGuidelines.html
> thanks,
> bryan

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