Re: [DOCS] Docs claim that "select myTable.*" wildcard won't let you assign column names

2015-09-21 Thread Amir Rohan
On Monday, September 21, 2015, Amir Rohan wrote: >> From >> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-select.html[http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql->> >> select.html] (and previous version too): >> >> ##SELECT List >> >> <...> >> Instead of an

Re: [DOCS] Docs claim that "select myTable.*" wildcard won't let you assign column names

2015-09-21 Thread Joe Conway
On 09/21/2015 06:04 PM, Amir Rohan wrote: > This belongs in the page describing SELECT, and though I've looked I haven't > found it. If I'm wrong ( > I did look again just now), please correct me. Feel free to submit a doc patch if you feel it needs to be improved, but it is mentioned here:

Re: [DOCS] Docs claim that "select myTable.*" wildcard won't let you assign column names

2015-09-21 Thread David G. Johnston
On Monday, September 21, 2015, Amir Rohan wrote: > On Monday, September 21, 2015, Amir Rohan > wrote: > > > >> From > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-select.html[http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql->> >

[DOCS] Docs claim that "select myTable.*" wildcard won't let you assign column names

2015-09-21 Thread Amir Rohan
  From http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-select.html (and previous version too):   ##SELECT List     <...>     Instead of an _expression_, * can be written in the output list as a shorthand for all the columns of the selected rows.     Also, you can write table_name.* as a