Got it. Thanks!
Scott
On Mar 1, 2005, at 10:52 PM, Ragnar Hafstað wrote:
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 16:51 -0800, Scott Frankel wrote:
Sweet! And not so sweet.
The natural join worked beautifully with my test schema; but it failed
to yield any rows with my real-world schema. I think I've tracked
down
why: duplicate column names. i.e.:
...
CREATE TABLE palettes (palette_pkey SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
palette_name text UNIQUE DEFAULT NULL,
qwe text);
CREATE TABLE tones (tone_pkey SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
tone_name text UNIQUE DEFAULT NULL,
palette_pkey integer REFERENCES palettes,
qwe text);
Are the 'qwe' columns in both tables clobbering each other and
preventing the
join from succeeding?
the docs really explain this better than I can, but a
table1 NATURAL JOIN table2
is shorthand fo a
table1 JOIN table2 USING (list_of_common_keys)
so:
select color_name from palettes
join tones USING (palette_pkey)
join colors USING (tone_pkey)
where palette_name='plt1';
see:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-select.html
gnari
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