Is this normal Postgres / psql behavior? griffindb=# \d system.user; Table "system.user" Column | Type | Modifiers
-----------+-----------------------+-------------------------------------------- -------- username | character varying(20) | not null password | character varying(32) | not null firstname | character varying(40) | not null default 'nema ime'::character vary ing lastname | character varying(40) | not null default 'nema prezime'::character varying Indexes: "SystemUser_PK" PRIMARY KEY, btree (username) CLUSTER normal query: griffindb=# select * from system.user where username = 'root'; username | password | firstname | lastname ----------+----------------------------------+-----------+--------------- root | 1e7db545fccbf4e03abc6b71d329ab4f | Super | administrator (1 row) error query: griffindb=# select * from system.user where user = 'root'; username | password | firstname | lastname ----------+----------+-----------+---------- (0 rows) column user does not exist should throw an error! PostgreSQL / psql version: 9.1.3 on Windows 7 64-bit Should Postgres or psql report an error because column used in WHERE clause does not exist?