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| -rw-r--r-- | src/backend/parser/parse_target.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/parser/parse_target.c b/src/backend/parser/parse_target.c index 6623ac6ed33..af26c4c1c92 100644 --- a/src/backend/parser/parse_target.c +++ b/src/backend/parser/parse_target.c @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ * * * IDENTIFICATION - * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/parser/parse_target.c,v 1.155 2007/09/06 17:31:58 tgl Exp $ + * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/parser/parse_target.c,v 1.156 2007/09/27 17:42:03 tgl Exp $ * *------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ @@ -826,9 +826,12 @@ ExpandColumnRefStar(ParseState *pstate, ColumnRef *cref, * (e.g., SELECT * FROM emp, dept) * * Since the grammar only accepts bare '*' at top level of SELECT, we - * need not handle the targetlist==false case here. + * need not handle the targetlist==false case here. However, we must + * test for it because the grammar currently fails to distinguish + * a quoted name "*" from a real asterisk. */ - Assert(targetlist); + if (!targetlist) + elog(ERROR, "invalid use of *"); return ExpandAllTables(pstate); } |