You have the alias in upper case: "C2", and postgres complains about a
lower case "c2". May be this some case sensitivity problem ?
Just a thought.
HTH,
Csaba.
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 09:17, Jost Richstein wrote:
> Ok. The exact error message is as follows:
>
> SQLException Time : Mon Oct 20 13:15:25 CEST 2003
> SQLException ErrorCode : 0
> SQLException SQLState : null
> SQLException Message : ERROR: Relation "c2" does not exist
> SQLException Connection: 4878867
>
> The query is something like this:
>
> SELECT DISTINCT C2.cmc_mchap, C2.cmc_sort
> FROM sis_cmca, sis_cmca C2
> WHERE cm_status != 'U' AND sis_cmca.cmc_name='INTERN2000' AND
> C2.cmc_name='INTERN2000' AND sis_cmca.cmc_mchap=C2.cmc_mchap
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > Jost Richstein <jrichstein@softdecc.com> writes:
> > > I am running a query with alias (a self join) against
> > > version 7.3.4 on Suse Linux 7.3 and on FreeBSD (v5?).
> > > It runs fine on Linux, but produces an error on
> > > FreeBSD: "unknown alias C2".
> >
> > The string "unknown alias" appears nowhere in the 7.3 sources.
> > Are you sure you are talking to a Postgres database?
> >
> > regards, tom lane
>
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