Re: novice question about NOTICE:...

Thanks Doug.
But then it came up with
ERROR: Column reference "oid" is ambiguous.
and eventually
ERROR: Column reference "lang" is ambiguous
because -every- table has an OID and in this case both tables have
a column 'lang'

so, correctly it is
select cgidat.oid, cgidat.lang from cgidat, tierdat where
cgidat.state = 'testing' and
cgidat.lang = tiredat.lang and
tierdat.tier = '0' order by lang;
And if you dont select lang then the order by has to be qualified too.

select cgidat.oid from cgidat, tierdat where
cgidat.state = 'testing' and
cgidat.lang = tiredat.lang and
tierdat.tier = '0' order by cgidat.lang;

At 12:55 PM -0800 4/3/02, Doug Silver wrote:
>
>That was mighty nice of Postgres to fix your query -- I didn't know it
>would do that. You're doing a join from two tables, cgidat and tierdat,
>so you must include them in your FROM clause:
>
>select oid, lang from cgidat, tierdat where
>cgidat.state = 'testing' and
>cgidat.lang = tiredat.lang and
>tierdat.tier = '0' order by lang;
>
>or using aliases (a must when you start joining several tables):
>
>select c.oid,c.lang from cgidat c, tierdat t where
>c.state='testing' and
>c.lang = t.lang and
>t.tier ='0' order by c.lang

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