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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:09:04 -0700
From: Mischa Sandberg <mischa.sandberg@telus.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How to alias table columns in result?
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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",
       ...