Cannot query views with WHERE clause on renamed columns

Alexander Reichstadt wrote

Hi,

I try to do what seems to be totally simple, but it fails. If I query a
view that contains renamed columns without any qualifier like

SELECT * FROM myview

it displays everything. If however I do

SELECT reanmedviewcolumn FROM myview

It tells me column does not exist which in fact does. I can query any
non-renamed columns. But the renamed ones I can neither call by their
original name, not int he SELECT part nor in the WHERE clause.

I can neither leave the view with just the original names as it's a
selfjoin.

What do I need to do?

Show us your actual code that is failing?

The general idea of what you are saying indeed works:

BEGIN;

CREATE VIEW myview AS SELECT 'one'::text AS one, 'two'::text AS two;

SELECT one FROM myview WHERE two = 'three';

ROLLBACK;

David J.

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Alexander Reichstadt <lxr@mac.com> writes:

I try to do what seems to be totally simple, but it fails. If I query a view that contains renamed columns without any qualifier like

SELECT * FROM myview

it displays everything. If however I do

SELECT reanmedviewcolumn FROM myview

It tells me column does not exist which in fact does.

What do you mean by a "renamed column"? A concrete example would help
here.

regards, tom lane

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