Pete Harlan wrote:
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 08:03:33PM -0500, Paul DuBois wrote:
At 17:29 -0700 4/5/04, Daevid Vincent wrote:The parser has seen the 'as', though, and could expand it in the where
I'm curious when will I be able to do something like this:
SELECT *, IF(( (unix_timestamp()-unix_timestamp(last_seen)) < 600),1,0) as active FROM wifi_table WHERE active = 1;
I think you'll never be able to do it.
The stuff after the SELECT is calculated based on the rows selected by the WHERE. The WHERE therefore cannot be based on the stuff after the SELECT.
clause so the user doesn't have to do it (and do it correctly, and
maintain it in parallel).
The problem is MySQL can't just start doing this without breaking queries that depend on it not happening. (If the 'as' alias is the same as a field name, for example.)
So I doubt it will happen, but not because it couldn't be done.
--Pete
That's all true, but even ignoring the consequences, it's probably not worth the effort, because the alias does work in a HAVING clause, as Matt W already pointed out. Furthermore, as Paul says, a function of a column cannot be used to decide which rows to look at, because you have to look at the rows to calculate the value of the function. Hence, there is no advantage to putting the calculated condition in the WHERE clause relative to putting it in the HAVING clause. That is, either way, it will be used to screen rows after looking at them.
Michael
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