Re: Column aliases for GROUP BY and HAVING

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 20:35, Tom Lane  wrote:

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> HAVING is not included because (a) it wasn't historically, and (b)
> the use-case for a bare column alias in HAVING would be pretty small
> anyway.  Your example wouldn't work even if HAVING acted the same
> as GROUP BY/ORDER BY, since you didn't just write the alias but
> tried to compare it to something else.

Thank you for the explanation. I didn't fully understand the gory
details, but it's of use to know that I cannot refer to an alias.


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- Rikard