Disallow LATERAL references to the target table of an UPDATE/DELETE.
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Disallow LATERAL references to the target table of an UPDATE/DELETE. On second thought, commit 0c051c90082da0b7e5bcaf9aabcbd4f361137cdc was over-hasty: rather than allowing this case, we ought to reject it for now. That leaves the field clear for a future feature that allows the target table to be re-specified in the FROM (or USING) clause, which will enable left-joining the target table to something else. We can then also allow LATERAL references to such an explicitly re-specified target table. But allowing them right now will create ambiguities or worse for such a feature, and it isn't something we documented 9.3 as supporting. While at it, add a convenience subroutine to avoid having several copies of the ereport for disalllowed-LATERAL-reference cases.
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| Path | Change | +/− |
|---|---|---|
| src/backend/parser/analyze.c | modified | +8 −4 |
| src/backend/parser/parse_relation.c | modified | +37 −25 |
| src/include/parser/parse_node.h | modified | +2 −1 |
| src/test/regress/expected/join.out | modified | +19 −29 |
| src/test/regress/sql/join.sql | modified | +6 −7 |