On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 23:34 +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> I don't know what your query or aliases have to do with joins, but if
> you want to join two tables on all fields with the same name, you can
> do a NATURAL JOIN.
>
> Have a nice day,
>
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 05:17:12PM -0500, Matthew Terenzio wrote:
> >
> > I suppose I should have named things differently but is there a way to
> > join two tables with a bunch of identical column names and rather than
> > explicitly alias each column just use some sort of wildcard like:
> >
> > SELECT tablename.* AS alias.*
> >
> > OR do I have to name each column like:
> >
> > columnname as alias
> >
Yes: SELECT foo as bar from baz;
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
> > Thanks much.
> >
> >
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> > TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to
> > choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not
> > match
>
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