On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 05:49:46PM +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > > select texten, total > from (select protocolid, count(*) as total) from ips where catid=1 ^ +--- There > group by protocolid order by protocolid) as c > inner join protocols using (protocolid); > > gives the error message: > > ERROR: subquery in FROM must have an alias > HINT: For example, FROM (SELECT ...) [AS] foo. > > Why isn't the "as c" considered as an alias?
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