Re: Inheritance c.cities ??

R Talbot wrote:
  >Looking at the Postgresql manual in the inheritance section I see
  >abbreviations.
  >
  >i.e.
  >SELECT c.name, c.altitude
  >FROM cities* c
  >WHERE c.altitude > 500;
  >
  >c.name  of course refering to cities.name
  > My question is where is there an alias reference of  c AS cities
  >
  >How does and where does the  cities become c.  How does Postgresql
  >recognize the change.

Here:

  >FROM cities* c

This is equivalent to "FROM cities* AS c".

In the current release, "cities" is equivalent to "cities*"; to get rows
from cities alone you need to use "FROM ONLY cities"

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