Inheritance c.cities ??

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#1R Talbot
rjtalbo@attglobal.net

Looking at the Postgresql manual in the inheritance section I see
abbreviations.

i.e.
SELECT c.name, c.altitude
FROM cities* c
WHERE c.altitude > 500;

c.name of course refering to cities.name
My question is where is there an alias reference of c AS cities

How does and where does the cities become c. How does Postgresql
recognize the change.

bob T

#2Oliver Elphick
olly@lfix.co.uk
In reply to: R Talbot (#1)
Re: Inheritance c.cities ??

R Talbot wrote:

Looking at the Postgresql manual in the inheritance section I see
abbreviations.

i.e.
SELECT c.name, c.altitude
FROM cities* c
WHERE c.altitude > 500;

c.name of course refering to cities.name
My question is where is there an alias reference of c AS cities

How does and where does the cities become c. How does Postgresql
recognize the change.

Here:

FROM cities* c

This is equivalent to "FROM cities* AS c".

In the current release, "cities" is equivalent to "cities*"; to get rows
from cities alone you need to use "FROM ONLY cities"

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#3R Talbot
rjtalbo@attglobal.net
In reply to: R Talbot (#1)
Re: Inheritance c.cities ??

R Talbot wrote:

R Talbot wrote:

Looking at the Postgresql manual in the inheritance section I see
abbreviations.

i.e.
SELECT c.name, c.altitude
FROM cities* c
WHERE c.altitude > 500;

c.name of course refering to cities.name
My question is where is there an alias reference of c AS cities

How does and where does the cities become c. How does Postgresql
recognize the change.

bob T

Thank You

I answered my question..

Bob T

Thank You

I answered my own question...

Bob T

#4Thurstan R. McDougle
trmcdougle@my-deja.com
In reply to: R Talbot (#1)
Re: Inheritance c.cities ??

R Talbot wrote:

Looking at the Postgresql manual in the inheritance section I see
abbreviations.

i.e.
SELECT c.name, c.altitude
FROM cities* c
WHERE c.altitude > 500;

c.name of course refering to cities.name
My question is where is there an alias reference of c AS cities

How does and where does the cities become c. How does Postgresql
recognize the change.

FROM cities* c is the same as
FROM cities* AS c
I personally would prefer it if everyone used the AS when it is implied
as, IMHO, it makes such statements much clearer.

bob T

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