Oliver Dizon wrote: > I hope I'm in the right place to throw this. I just want to ask the reason > behind this weird scenario. > > All records were deleted in a table even if the subquery in the where clause > has a missing a column. > > --from a certain script where table_id is not yet existing on table_sample > > delete from main_table_sample where table_id in (select table_id from > table_sample); > > Im expecting that postgres will return an ERROR message like > 'column "table_id" does not exist on table table_sample' > > But it did not returned any error and deleted all the records instead. > > Version: psql (8.4.9, server 9.2.5)
That seems unlikely. Can you produce a reproducible test case? Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
