subquery question

From: Tom Raney <twraney(at)comcast(dot)net>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: subquery question
Date: 2009-02-01 00:13:15
Message-ID: 4984E91B.5010000@comcast.net
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I've dug around on the Postgres lists for a bit and I haven't found a
good explanation of why this query is not allowed.

SELECT Temp.team_id, Temp.count_agents
FROM (SELECT TR.team_id, COUNT(TR.agent_id) AS count_agents
FROM teamrel TR
GROUP BY TR.team_id ) AS Temp
WHERE Temp.count_agents = (SELECT MIN (Temp.count_agents) FROM Temp)

I know that column aliases are not accessible in the WHERE clause, but why can't we access outer table aliases in a subquery FROM clause? Is the table alias rewritten into the select clause?

-Tom

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