On Sat, 7 May 2005, Jochem van Dieten wrote: >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.
Here is the bug report that I finally made... http://bugs.mysql.com/10646 Thanks for the help! Dan. > > >> 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] > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
