Re: newbie - syntax question

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: "McCaffity, Ray (Contractor)" <McCaffityR(at)epg(dot)lewis(dot)army(dot)mil>
Cc: "'pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: newbie - syntax question
Date: 2002-05-10 00:42:42
Message-ID: 20020509174129.D25908-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On Thu, 9 May 2002, McCaffity, Ray (Contractor) wrote:

> We are in the process of switching from Ingres II to Postgres,
> we use a lot of views, most of them seem to straight across without too
> many problems. But some are a little more diffcult. Does anyone know
> the syntax, on how to do view aliasing in postgres? Here is an example
> view script from ingres. I've looked all through the PDF manuals, and I can
> create generic views, but these don't seem to work. This one seems to fail
> with all of the "=" .

> select distinct
> uid = 'c' + trim(char(m.ctc_uid)),
> command = e.msg_command,

I think you probably want something like
e.msg_command AS command,

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