From: Mischa Sandberg <mischa.sandberg@telus.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How to alias table columns in result?
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:09:04 -0700
Message-ID: <1123715344.42fa89104f121@webmail.telus.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1745503505081015455e79f284@mail.gmail.com>
References: <1745503505081015455e79f284@mail.gmail.com>
Quoting nori <kodmasin@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> If I have:
> 1.) table car with columns index and name
> 2.) table driver with columns index, name and car_index
>
> and query:
> SELECT d.*, c.* FROM driver as d LEFT OUTER JOIN car AS c ON
> d.car_index=c.index;
>
> How can I get results that have distinct names for columns (ex.
> d.name, d.index, c.name, c.index,...)?
Here's where you have to get explicit; d.* won't work.
If you want to have names with (.) in them, they have to be quoted, too.
Me, I'd use "d_name, d_index, c_name, ..."
SELECT d.name as "d.name",
d.index as "d.index",
c.name as "c.name",
...
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