Re: PQftable insufficient for primary key determination

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Michal Maru?ka <mmc(at)maruska(dot)dyndns(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PQftable insufficient for primary key determination
Date: 2004-07-16 03:04:42
Message-ID: 20040716030442.GA27871@wolff.to
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On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 03:38:52 +0200,
Michal Maru?ka <mmc(at)maruska(dot)dyndns(dot)org> wrote:
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> Imagine i have a table A with primary key "p" and another attribute called "data":
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> SELECT * from A, A, B;
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> here, i will have 2 columns "data", PQftable tells me that they are from A, but
> which of the 2 columns "p" is the primary key of the tuple (of the table A)?
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> Is it possible to get distinguish the 2 instances of the table A?

You can use aliases to distinguish between two references to the same
table in a query. Your question doesn't make a lot of sense though, since
you haven't said which of the two copies of A you are interested in.

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