Hi, I am not sure if there ever was a feature request for using defined column aliases in the rest of a query. This would make queries with a lot of logic in those aliased columns a lot smaller and this easier to write/debug.
I already know you can use the following syntax: SELECT col1, col2, col3, (col2-col3) as col4 FROM (SELECT col1, (long and lots of logic here) as col2, col3 FROM table) s WHERE col2 < aValue But when you need to use (calculated) values from the actual record and or have sub-selects in your main select that also need to use these values things get really hairy. I don't know if the SQL specification allows it but I know that RDBMS's like Sybase already support this. Any thoughts? Cheers, Robert -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
