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hi Ligia,

there was a posting to this list some time ago, about the same question. 
I just found it as I had the same question as you:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/1998-05/msg00091.php

(in short: it is not possible in Postgres)

the mail is from 1998, but I just tried to make a select using 
mydatabase.mytable as table name in a select statement and this does not 
work.

Chantal