Re: " Adding missing FROM-clause entry for table .... " problem. - Mailing list pgsql-sql

Hmmm i forgot to follow up.
Thanks for pointing out the relevent Docs.

Regds
Mallah.

On Tuesday 18 February 2003 04:04 pm, Christoph Haller wrote:
> > We find that if we alias a tablename and refer to that tablename in
>
> where cluase instead of reffering
>
> > to the alias it produces wrond results.
> >
> > EG:
> > select to_char(a.generated, 'DD/Mon/YYYY' ) ,userid,email,descr from
>
> membership_invoice a join payment_classes using(
> payment_class)
>
> > join users using(userid)  join membership_status using(userid) where
>
> membership_invoice.status='a' and granted is fa
> lse and
>
> > membership_invoice.last_reminder is null and current_date -
>
> date(a.generated) > 4  limit 10 ;
>
> > NOTICE:  Adding missing FROM-clause entry for table
>
> "membership_invoice"
>
> > Where as merely rewriting the quer to use defined aliases gives the
>
> correct results.
>
> > select to_char(a.generated, 'DD/Mon/YYYY' ) ,userid,email,descr from
>
> membership_invoice a join payment_classes
>
> > using(payment_class) join users using(userid)  join membership_status
>
> using(userid) where  a.status='a' and granted i
> s
>
> > false and a.last_reminder is null and current_date - date(a.generated)
> > 4   ;
> >
> > Can Anyone please explain if its a BUG or problem in my understanding
>
> I think it's a problem in understanding. The documentation (7.2.1)
> states (as the NOTICE: does)
>
> 2.2.1.3. Table and Column Aliases
>
> A temporary name can be given to tables and complex table references to
> be used for references to the derived table in further
> processing. This is called a table alias.
>
> FROM table_reference AS alias
>
> Here, alias can be any regular identifier. The alias becomes the new
> name of the table reference for the current query -- it is no
> longer possible to refer to the table by the original name. Thus
>
> SELECT * FROM my_table AS m WHERE my_table.a > 5;
>
> is not valid SQL syntax. What will actually happen (this is a PostgreSQL
> extension to the standard) is that an implicit table
> reference is added to the FROM clause, so the query is processed as if
> it were written as
>
> SELECT * FROM my_table AS m, my_table AS my_table WHERE my_table.a > 5;
>
> Regards, Christoph
>
>
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