Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In PostgreSQL 7.4, the following select: > select texten, total > from (select protocolid, count(*) as total) from ips where catid=1 > group by protocolid order by protocolid) as c > inner join protocols using (protocolid);
> gives the error message: > ERROR: subquery in FROM must have an alias > HINT: For example, FROM (SELECT ...) [AS] foo. > Why isn't the "as c" considered as an alias? It's complaining about this part: from (select protocolid, count(*) as total) from ips where ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It hasn't gotten as far as noticing your mismatched parentheses and two top-level FROM keywords yet ;-). It would probably be helpful if this message included a cursor location... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend