-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You missed something obvious. Executing this query in psql you have no problem, because there is no structure created from the result. A view behaves like a table - try creating a table like create table blah ( id int, id int ); and you'll hit the same error. You have to have different names for the columns. BTW: that's not a postgres problem, ANY relational database will give the same error here. On Thursday 10 February 2005 09:20 am, Christoph Pingel wrote: > >Could you give an actual example? > > Sure. The idea is that 'objects' (persons, books, places) from a > table obj are linked with each other in a link table ool where > objects from obj can appear in an 'subject' or a 'object' column. > Since the relation can be any, this is a very flexible and lean > design for an 'ontology-like' collection of facts. > > As I said, the CREATE VIEW returns an error (column obj_id > duplicated), while the select statement by itself works (with an > additional constraint on s.obj_id, otherwise the db would throw up > hundreds of thousands of rows). > > CREATE VIEW relations_aspect_subject AS > SELECT s.obj_id, s.canonical_name, rlt.dscr, rlt.rlt_id, o.obj_id, > o.canonical_name > FROM obj s, obj o, ool, rlt > WHERE s.obj_id = ool.subject > AND o.obj_id = ool.object > AND rlt.rlt_id = ool.relation > ORDER BY rlt_id > > Do I miss something obvious? > > thanks, > Christoph > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend - -- UC - -- Open Source Solutions 4U, LLC 2570 Fleetwood Drive Phone: +1 650 872 2425 San Bruno, CA 94066 Cell: +1 650 302 2405 United States Fax: +1 650 872 2417 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCC5zdjqGXBvRToM4RAk6bAJ0feXiYMKN0uYHv9qM2S8tH3mAVOwCaAjWv VwPo11ag0tGoOzeclxxFkxI= =xvU0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org