On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 11:38 PM, Ashutosh Bapat
<ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 10:28 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Ashutosh Bapat
>> <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>> That's not true with the alias information. As long as we detect which
>>> relations need subqueries, their RTIs are enough to create unique aliases
>>> e.g. if a relation involves RTIs 1, 2, 3 corresponding subquery can have
>>> alias r123 without conflicting with any other alias.
>>
>> What if RTI 123 is also used in the query?
>
> Good catch. I actually meant some combination of 1, 2 and 3, which is
> unique for a join between r1, r2 and r3. How about r1_2_3 or
> r1_r2_r3?
Sure, something like that can work, but if you have a big enough join
the identifier might get too long. I'm not sure why it wouldn't work
to just use the lowest RTI involved in the join, though; the others
won't appear anywhere else at that query level.
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