cookConstraint dead code - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

hi.

in cookConstraint
    /*
     * Make sure no outside relations are referred to (this is probably dead
     * code now that add_missing_from is history).
     */
    if (list_length(pstate->p_rtable) != 1)
        ereport(ERROR,
                (errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_COLUMN_REFERENCE),
                 errmsg("only table \"%s\" can be referenced in check
constraint",
                        relname)));

looks like it indeed is dead code.
because  we cannot use subquery in check constraint.
if you want to reference another table, then you need
explicit mention it, like:

CREATE TABLE t3 (a int CHECK ( (a> v3.a)));

v3. is a ColumnRef node.
transformColumnRef, refnameNamespaceItem will error out if there is no
table name
specified in FROM clause.