On 5/7/05, Dan Bolser wrote: > On Sat, 7 May 2005, Jochem van Dieten wrote: >>On 5/7/05, Dan Bolser wrote: >> >>> select pk from a inner join b using (pk); >>> >>> ERROR 1052 (23000): Column 'pk' in field list is ambiguous!!! >>> >>> Is this a bug, or is it like this for a reason? It drives me nuts, because >>> it is not ambigious (as far as I can tell). Am I a fool? >> >> It is not ambiguous according to the SQL standard. If this behaviour >> of MySQL is documented it is an omission in the MySQL implementation >> that you get the error. If this behaviour is not documented, it is a >> bug. > > Perhaps the omission is documented? Should I try to log this as a bug?
Always get it into the system. Even if it is considered not a bug but a feature I think it warrants a documentation update. But the problem with fixing this is that it is not backward compatible and will break for everybody who qualifies his field names. > Out of interest, what would happen in the following case... > > select pk from a inner join b on a.pk = b.pk+1; > > Would that be 'correctly' ambigious according to the sql specification? That would indeed be ambiguous according to the SQL standard. Jochem -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
