Re: Inheritance c.cities ??

R Talbot wrote:
>Looking at the Postgresql manual in the inheritance section I see
>abbreviations.
>
>i.e.
>SELECT c.name, c.altitude
>FROM cities* c
>WHERE c.altitude > 500;
>
>c.name of course refering to cities.name
> My question is where is there an alias reference of c AS cities
>
>How does and where does the cities become c. How does Postgresql
>recognize the change.

Here:

>FROM cities* c

This is equivalent to "FROM cities* AS c".

In the current release, "cities" is equivalent to "cities*"; to get rows
from cities alone you need to use "FROM ONLY cities"

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