On 14/09/2010, at 8:56 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes:
Yaroslav Tykhiy wrote:
SELECT * FROM foo.bar WHERE bar.a=1;
                           ^^^ this means foo.bar

Do you think it's a feature or a bug? :-)

Feature, and SQL-standard behavior.

It might be worth pointing out that this has nothing to do with
search_path; rather, the key is that the FROM clause establishes
a table alias "bar" for the query.

Sure, that makes sense because it just extends the well-known aliasing for unqualified column names, as in "SELECT a FROM foo", to table names as well. But a remark on this feature in the SCHEMA related documentation pages can be a good idea IMHO.

Thanks!

Yar

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