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From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: Unexpected result from selecting an aliased but non-existing column called "name"
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Msg-id 201003090621.09130.adrian.klaver@gmail.com
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In response to Unexpected result from selecting an aliased but non-existing column called "name"  (Ian Barwick <barwick@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Unexpected result from selecting an aliased but non-existing column called "name"  (Ian Barwick <barwick@gmail.com>)
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On Tuesday 09 March 2010 12:50:45 am Ian Barwick wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was wondering where some spurious information in a query was
> coming from - it looked like something was inserting all the
> values of a table row as a comma-separated list.
>
> It turns out I was attempting to reference a non-existent column
> called (literally) "name", which instead of throwing an error produces
> the aforementioned list. This only seems to happen with "name", and
> only if it is referenced with the table name or alias.
>
>
>
>
> Ian Barwick

See this recent thread for explanation:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2010-02/msg01038.php

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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@gmail.com

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