Re: ERROR: column "gid" specified more than once - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From David G. Johnston
Subject Re: ERROR: column "gid" specified more than once
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Msg-id CAKFQuwYuXsPX0d4j+wKdBORjL2puSJZwR=X3ayH4+nN9iRkgvA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 8:53 AM, ktm@rice.edu <ktm@rice.edu> wrote:
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 08:49:53AM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 12, 2015, Jason Aleski <jason.aleski@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > You probably need to specify your wildcard on both tables.
> >
> > CREATE TABLE "BorujerdDistCent" as
> > SELECT
> >   "Borujerd".*, "Lorestan".*,
> > t_distance(st_centroid("Lorestan".geometry),"Borujerd".geometry)/1000
> > as DistFromCntroid
> > FROM "Borujerd", "Lorestan"
> >
> >
> My bad on the assumed -bugs list from before...
>
> Anyway, how is this suugestion different from simply saying "*" without a
> relation specification - which the OP did and it didn't work.
>
> David J.

Because the column names are differentiated by their prefixes then:

Borujerd.gid, Lorestan.gid

No conflict.


I suggest you test that theory out.

David J.

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