[HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] Problems with outer joins in 7.1beta5

2001-03-16 Thread Tom Lane
Barry Lind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I would expect the syntax to be is: > table as alias (columna as aliasa, columnb as aliasb,...) > This will allow the query to work regardless of what the table column > order is. Generally the SQL spec has tried not to tie query behaviour > to the

[GENERAL] Problems with outer joins in 7.1beta5

2001-03-16 Thread Barry Lind
My problem is that my two outer joined tables have columns that have the same names. Therefore when my select list tries to reference the columns they are ambiguously defined. Looking at the doc I see the way to deal with this is by using the following syntax: table as alias (column1alias, c