Excerpts from Darren Duncan's message of jue sep 16 02:33:37 -0400 2010: > My impression of this is that Pg is treating the "a1" after the "AS" like it > was > a variable reference and so substituted it for $1.
Yes. > Now that just seems wrong to me. I can understand either "a0" or "rv" > getting a > substitution, but something following an "AS" being substituted is just wrong. > > Is that a bug and if not then what is the rationale for working that way, and > can it be changed? Fixed in 9.0. > Meanwhile, what is the best way to write f to work around this misbehavior? Give the column a different alias, one not colliding with a variable name. -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers