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[jira] [Assigned] (ASTERIXDB-1847) Confusing ambiguous alias error
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ASTERIXDB-1847?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Dmitry Lychagin reassigned ASTERIXDB-1847:
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Assignee: Dmitry Lychagin (was: Yingyi Bu)
> Confusing ambiguous alias error message
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> Key: ASTERIXDB-1847
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ASTERIXDB-1847
> Project: Apache AsterixDB
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Michael J. Carey
> Assignee: Dmitry Lychagin
> Attachments: HW8_DataInit.txt, HW8_TableInit.txt
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> This query, when run on the attached data:
> USE TopicalBird;
> SELECT btag, about FROM Chirps WHERE about IN
> (SELECT Topics.tid FROM Topics WHERE name = 'Kindle' OR name = 'Surface') ;
> Yields this error msg:
> Cannot resolve ambiguous alias reference for undefined identifier name [AlgebricksException]
> It's not obvious to naive users (or me :-)) why this is an ambiguous reference. Could we improve this error msg somehow? This may be a fairly typical error pattern for SQL --> SQL++ users -- i.e., they are used to SQL's unqualified column-naming permissiveness, and will carry those habits into NoSQL-land and then be perplexed at times.
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