Re: Why lower's not accept an AS declaration ?

From: Darko Prenosil <darko(dot)prenosil(at)finteh(dot)hr>
To: Hervé Piedvache <herve(at)elma(dot)fr>, Postgresql General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why lower's not accept an AS declaration ?
Date: 2003-08-18 11:04:07
Message-ID: 200308181304.07315.darko.prenosil@finteh.hr
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On Monday 18 August 2003 10:20, Hervé Piedvache wrote:
> Hi,
>
> May be my question is stupid ... but I'm a little suprised :
>
> SELECT id_letter as letter from my_table;
>
> letter
> -----
> B
> C
> a
> A
>
> SELECT id_letter as letter from my_table order by letter;
>
> letter
> -----
> A
> B
> C
> a
>
> SELECT id_letter as letter from my_table order by lower(letter);
>
> ERROR: Attribute "letter" not found
>

Why did you change column name to "letter" in last query, and all the other
queries have "id_letter" as column name. What is table structure exactly ?
I assume that You don't have column with "letter" at all.

Regards !

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