Re: Shortcut?

darcy@druid.net (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
> Thus spake Phuong Ma
>> SELECT distributors.* WHERE name = 'Westwood';
>> I tried it on tables in our database, but it doesn't work.  Is that part
>> of earlier versions of Postgres?

> I assume you mean this.
>   SELECT distributors.* WHERE distributors.name = 'Westwood';

Yes: you must mention a table in FROM to make its field names available
for reference without qualification.  I think we may have tightened that
in recent releases --- the current political climate is to discourage
use of tables without FROM, since SQL92 doesn't allow it at all.

> Can you tell me where you found that example.  I couldn't find it in the
> documentation sources.

A quick glimpse shows that we still have it in ref/select.sgml (try
'Westward' instead of 'Westwood').  Will fix.
        regards, tom lane