tenderlove/texticle — Issue #70: ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: PG::Error: ERROR:  missing FROM-clause entry for table
Author: xlash
Created: 2012-02-24 02:34:27+00:00
State: open

I've a complex ActiveRecord query that I'm building up with different scopes, depending on the user selection.

Here are my classes definitions:

class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :entity, :class_name => "Entity", :foreign_key => :entity_id
belongs_to :place, :class_name => "Entity", :foreign_key => :place_id

class Entity < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :events, :foreign_key => 'entity_id'
has_many :events, :foreign_key => 'place_id'
And finally, my query :

Event.joins{entity.outer}.joins{place.outer}.includes(:place).includes(:entity).search_by_name('anystring'.downcase)
*This is an ActiveRecord::Relation object, which crash when calling it with to_a (joins{.outer} is provided by another gem : squeel)

This gives me the following error :

ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: PG::Error: ERROR: missing FROM-clause entry for table "entities_events"
LINE 1: ... AS t1_r30, "entities"."metro_area_id" AS t1_r31, "entities_...
^
: SELECT "events"."id" AS t0_r0, "events"."name" AS t0_r1, "events"."start_at" AS t0_r2, "events"."end_at" AS t0_r3, "events"."created_at" AS t0_r4, "events"."updated_at" AS t0_r5, "events"."entity_id" AS t0_r6, "events"."calendar_id" AS t0_r7, "events"."location" AS t0_r8, "events"."facebook_id" AS t0_r9, "events"."updated_time" AS t0_r10, "events"."privacy" AS t0_r11, "events"."venue_id" AS t0_r12, "events"."description" AS t0_r13, "events"."venue_city" AS t0_r14, "events"."venue_country" AS t0_r15, "events"."venue_state" AS t0_r16, "events"."venue_longitude" AS t0_r17, "events"."venue_latitude" AS t0_r18, "events"."yahoo_city" AS t0_r19, "events"."yahoo_country" AS t0_r20, "events"."yahoo_state" AS t0_r21, "events"."yahoo_updated_at" AS t0_r22, "events"."fb_updated_at" AS t0_r23, "events"."source_id" AS t0_r24, "events"."source_type" AS t0_r25, "events"."source_url" AS t0_r26, "events"."status" AS t0_r27, "events"."category" AS t0_r28, "events"."place_id" AS t0_r29, "events"."metro_area_id" AS t0_r30, "entities"."id" AS t1_r0, "entities"."image_url" AS t1_r1, "entities"."created_at" AS t1_r2, "entities"."updated_at" AS t1_r3, "entities"."name" AS t1_r4, "entities"."facebook_id" AS t1_r5, "entities"."link" AS t1_r6, "entities"."website" AS t1_r7, "entities"."company_overview" AS t1_r8, "entities"."mission" AS t1_r9, "entities"."category" AS t1_r10, "entities"."picture" AS t1_r11, "entities"."city" AS t1_r12, "entities"."zip" AS t1_r13, "entities"."country" AS t1_r14, "entities"."street" AS t1_r15, "entities"."state" AS t1_r16, "entities"."events_updated_at" AS t1_r17, "entities"."fblikes_updated_at" AS t1_r18, "entities"."fb_updated_at" AS t1_r19, "entities"."source_url" AS t1_r20, "entities"."source_type" AS t1_r21, "entities"."source_id" AS t1_r22, "entities"."place" AS t1_r23, "entities"."latitude" AS t1_r24, "entities"."longitude" AS t1_r25, "entities"."yahoo_city" AS t1_r26, "entities"."yahoo_state" AS t1_r27, "entities"."yahoo_country" AS t1_r28, "entities"."yahoo_updated_at" AS t1_r29, "entities"."fetched_elements_at" AS t1_r30, "entities"."metro_area_id" AS t1_r31, "entities_events"."id" AS t2_r0, "entities_events"."image_url" AS t2_r1, "entities_events"."created_at" AS t2_r2, "entities_events"."updated_at" AS t2_r3, "entities_events"."name" AS t2_r4, "entities_events"."facebook_id" AS t2_r5, "entities_events"."link" AS t2_r6, "entities_events"."website" AS t2_r7, "entities_events"."company_overview" AS t2_r8, "entities_events"."mission" AS t2_r9, "entities_events"."category" AS t2_r10, "entities_events"."picture" AS t2_r11, "entities_events"."city" AS t2_r12, "entities_events"."zip" AS t2_r13, "entities_events"."country" AS t2_r14, "entities_events"."street" AS t2_r15, "entities_events"."state" AS t2_r16, "entities_events"."events_updated_at" AS t2_r17, "entities_events"."fblikes_updated_at" AS t2_r18, "entities_events"."fb_updated_at" AS t2_r19, "entities_events"."source_url" AS t2_r20, "entities_events"."source_type" AS t2_r21, "entities_events"."source_id" AS t2_r22, "entities_events"."place" AS t2_r23, "entities_events"."latitude" AS t2_r24, "entities_events"."longitude" AS t2_r25, "entities_events"."yahoo_city" AS t2_r26, "entities_events"."yahoo_state" AS t2_r27, "entities_events"."yahoo_country" AS t2_r28, "entities_events"."yahoo_updated_at" AS t2_r29, "entities_events"."fetched_elements_at" AS t2_r30, "entities_events"."metro_area_id" AS t2_r31 FROM "events" LEFT OUTER JOIN "entities" ON "entities"."id" = "events"."entity_id" LEFT OUTER JOIN "entities" "places_events" ON "places_events"."id" = "events"."place_id" WHERE (to_tsvector('english', "events"."name"::text) @@ to_tsquery('english', 'canadiens'::text)) ORDER BY "rank0.11630770538778923" DESC
from /Users/guillaumenm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/activerecord-3.2.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:1106:in `async_exec'
from /Users/guillaumenm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/activerecord-3.2.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:1106:in `exec_no_cache'
from /Users/guillaumenm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/activerecord-3.2.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:650:in `block in exec_query'
from /Users/guillaumenm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/activerecord-3.2.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:280:in `block in log'
from /Users/guillaumenm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/activesupport-3.2.1/lib/active_support/notifications/instrumenter.rb:20:in `instrument'
from /Users/guillaumenm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/activerecord-3.2.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:275:in `log'
from /Users/guillaumenm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/activerecord-3.2.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:649:in `exec_query'
from /Users/guillaumenm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/activerecord-3.2.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:1201:in `select'
from /Users/guillaumenm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/activerecord-3.2.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/database_statements.rb:16:in `select_all'
from /Users/guillaumenm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/activerecord-3.2.1/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/query_cache.rb:63:in `select_all'
from /Users/guillaumenm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/activerecord-3.2.1/lib/active_record/relation/finder_methods.rb:211:in `find_with_associations'
from /Users/guillaumenm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/activerecord-3.2.1/lib/active_record/relation.rb:170:in `exec_queries'
from /Users/guillaumenm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/activerecord-3.2.1/lib/active_record/relation.rb:159:in `block in to_a'
from /Users/guillaumenm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/activerecord-3.2.1/lib/active_record/explain.rb:40:in `logging_query_plan'
from /Users/guillaumenm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/activerecord-3.2.1/lib/active_record/relation.rb:158:in `to_a'
from /Users/guillaumenm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/activerecord-3.2.1/lib/active_record/relation.rb:495:in `inspect'
from /Users/guillaumenm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/railties-3.2.1/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:47:in `start'
from /Users/guillaumenm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/railties-3.2.1/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:8:in `start'
from /Users/guillaumenm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/railties-3.2.1/lib/rails/commands.rb:41:in `'
from ./script/rails:6:in `require'

The problem is in the way texticle builds it's SELECT statement, when I have outer joins. I'll be investigating for a fix, but it seems pointing to texticle.rb in Texticle::Search

select("#{quoted_table_name + '.*,' if scoped.select_values.empty?} #{@similarities.join(" + ")} AS #{rank}").
where(@conditions.join(exclusive ? " AND " : " OR ")).
order("#{rank} DESC")

Thanks for your help.