Re: [SQL] SELECT 1st field

2012-05-15 Thread Jan Bakuwel
Hi Misa, Tom & msi77, On 16/05/12 00:21, Misa Simic wrote: > SELECT id FROM generate_series(1,5) AS foo(id); Thanks for the suggestions - all sorted! cheers, Jan smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [SQL] SELECT 1st field

2012-05-15 Thread Misa Simic
Both works fine: SELECT generate_series AS id FROM generate_series(1,5); and SELECT id FROM generate_series(1,5) AS foo(id); Technically dont know is there any differenece... Thanks, Misa 2012/5/15 Tom Lane > Jan Bakuwel writes: > > What I need is the ability to name the column in the vie

Re: [SQL] SELECT 1st field

2012-05-15 Thread Tom Lane
Jan Bakuwel writes: > What I need is the ability to name the column in the view, ie. > create view v as select 1 as "id" from func(5); I think what you're looking for is the ability to re-alias a column name, for example select id from func(5) as foo(id); regard

Re: [SQL] SELECT 1st field

2012-05-15 Thread Misa Simic
When you select from function I think column name is the same as function name. So if function name is func query would be: SELECT func AS id FROM func(5); Sent from my Windows Phone From: Jan Bakuwel Sent: 15/05/2012 08:02 To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: [SQL] SELECT 1st field Hi, I&#x

Re: [SQL] SELECT 1st field

2012-05-14 Thread msi77
Try this create view v(id) as select * from func(5); if your function returns one column. 15.05.2012, 10:01, "Jan Bakuwel" : > Hi, > > I've spend some time checking the documentation but haven't been able to > find what I'm looking for. > I've got a function that returns a set of integers and a

[SQL] SELECT 1st field

2012-05-14 Thread Jan Bakuwel
Hi, I've spend some time checking the documentation but haven't been able to find what I'm looking for. I've got a function that returns a set of integers and a view that selects from the function. What I need is the ability to name the column in the view, ie. create function func(i int) returns