Re: [HACKERS] Table aliases in delete statements? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Table aliases in delete statements?
Date
Msg-id 199912090320.WAA03916@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Table aliases in delete statements?  (Keith Parks <emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk>)
List pgsql-hackers
> >Unless your query is going to be long enough to run into query length
> >limits, aliases are not your friends.  Standard SQL they may be, but
> >aliases always end up obscuring queries to those who come along after
> >you. 
> 
> The problem is that it's difficult to refer to the same table twice
> in a single query without using aliases.
> 
> The trap I fell into was thinking I had to alias both references to
> the table.
> 
> I'd be interested in seeing alternative solutions to the duplicate
> removal problem.

Yes, that is tricky in that there is an aliased version and a non-alias
version of the same table.

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