On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 12:01:48AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 08:51:32PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > and don't take this the wrong way, but maybe you should build your app > > so you can't select columns that dont exist? > > > Perhaps he should consider switching to a database that just returns an > error on a non-existent column, rather than making the system unusable. > > > I know that's a work-around to what may be some other problem, but > > seems reasonable to me. > > > Doesn't seem reasonable to me. That is extremely bad behavior for a > database. I mean it seems reasonable to build an app that doesn't ask for things that aren't there. At least that was something I was taught oh so long ago. And I agree, OP should use a db that behaves reasonably. A
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