Bug #38 Strange occurance of ERROR 1243: Cyclic reference on subqueries

• Submitted: 25 Jan 2003 17:14
• Modified: 30 Jan 2003 14:35
• Reporter: Alexander Keremidarski
• Status: Closed
• Category: Server
• Severity: S3 (Non-critical)
• Version: 4.1
• OS: Any (any)

[25 Jan 2003 17:14] Alexander Keremidarski

Description:
Cyclic reference on subqueries Error occurs with query where it does not sound logical

How to repeat:
How-to-repeat :

mysql> SELECT 1 as a,(SELECT a+a) b,(SELECT b);
ERROR 1243: Cyclic reference on subqueries

However

mysql> SELECT 1 as a,(SELECT a+a) b,(SELECT 1);
+---+---+------------+
| a | b | (SELECT 1) |
+---+---+------------+
| 1 | 2 |          1 |
+---+---+------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> SELECT 1 as a,(SELECT a) b,(SELECT b);
+---+---+------------+
| a | b | (SELECT b) |
+---+---+------------+
| 1 | 1 |          1 |
+---+---+------------+

(original Jocelyn question): What's wrong with the first query ?