[GENERAL] where cannot use alias name of column?

[Giorgio Volpe]

May be it's my ignorance about sql ...
but why cannot i use alias name of a column in a where clause?


# select key as cc from mytable where cc > 0;
ERROR:  Attribute 'cc' not found


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    Giorgio

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