[DDC-1079] Behavior of Doctrine 2 is not as defined by EBNF definition for SimpleSelectExpression

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:19:29 +0000

Queries like

SELECT COUNT(a)
  FROM \a a
 WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 0
      		 FROM \b b
                WHERE b.a = a)

will not work, whereas they should.

Assume that there are potentially millions of b's per a, so this should not be joined, just simply left as-is as a correlated subquery within an exists expression. Actually, a "LIMIT 1" at the end of the subquery would come in handy here, too.

Doctrine 2 will give an error message

[Syntax Error] line 0, col [...]: Error: Expected known function, got '0''

when parsing the DQL statement.

According to the EBNF definition, 0 qualifies as a Literal, which qualifies as an ArithmeticPrimary, which qualifies as an ArithmeticFactor, which qualifies as an ArithmeticTerm, which qualifies as a SimpleArithmeticExpression, which qualifies as a ScalarExpression, which qualifies as a SimpleSelectExpression, which should be perfectly legitimate in that position.

This is yet another annoying case of the Doctrine 2 documentation not matching the behavior of the actual implementation.

Fortunately, it is easy to work around this defect by selecting some field and sacrificing a bit of performance, but then again, it sucks to have to continuously implement workarounds.

Doctrine Project

[DDC-1079] Behavior of Doctrine 2 is not as defined by EBNF definition for SimpleSelectExpression