Re: How get column-wise table info from an arbitrary query?

On 05/12/2012 01:04, Kenneth Tilton wrote:
> I am porting from MySQL some code that has to take an arbitrary query
> involving joins and build up a dictionary (in an HLL talking to Postgres
> over a socket) where each column name will be the key. The catch is that
> there will be duplicate entries where two joined tables have the same
> column such as "id", so I have to get the source table for each column.
> Here is a sample query:
>
>    select * from providers p inner join provider_types pt on pt.id
> <http://pt.id> = p.provider_type_id;
>
> I actually figured out how to get the table OID which would suffice, but
> I am porting MySQL code that could get fully qualified column names
> including a table alias if that were used. We allow other code to look
> up values in the dictionary with the alias as a prefix as a convenience,
> eg. "p.id <http://p.id>" or "pt.id <http://pt.id>".

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but why don't you just give the columns an
alias directly? -

   select p.id as p_id, pt.id as pt_id, ....

Ray.


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