X-Original-To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (postgresql.org [64.49.215.8]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DEB0475AAC for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:09:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from wolff.to (wolff.to [66.93.249.74]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4632C475A9E for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:09:15 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 17579 invoked by uid 500); 19 Feb 2003 15:22:57 -0000 Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:22:57 -0600 From: Bruno Wolff III To: Axel Schlueter Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Default column titles in a select... Message-ID: <20030219152257.GA17434@wolff.to> Mail-Followup-To: Axel Schlueter , pgsql-sql@postgresql.org References: <3E5393E5.6050901@pqrs.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E5393E5.6050901@pqrs.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS new-20020517 X-Archive-Number: 200302/428 X-Sequence-Number: 11826 On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 15:25:41 +0100, Axel Schlueter wrote: > > When doing the following select statement: > select * from a,b where a.objid=b.objid > postgresql returns four columns labeled > objid atext objid atext > instead of what I expected: > a.objid a.atext b.objid b.atext Use something like: select a.objid as "a.objib", a.atext as "a.atext", b.objid as "b.objid", b.atext as "b.atext" from a,b where a.objid=b.objid;