Re: [SQL] Relating 1 table to another. - Mailing list pgsql-sql

At 19:47 +0300 on 25/04/1999, Tom Lane wrote:


>
> This is where you need table aliases (AS clauses).  You do it like this:
>
> select project.id, project.name, p1.name, p2.name
> from project, people as p1, people as p2 where
> project.mainpersonid = p1.id and project.standbypersonid = p2.id;

No, AS is for field aliasing, not table aliasing.

The proper syntax is

SELECT project.id, project.name, p1.name, p2.name
FROM project, people p1, people p2
WHERE project.mainpersonid = p1.id AND project.standbypersonid = p2.id;

Herouth

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