Re: Shortcut?

Thus spake Phuong Ma
> I'm running Postgres 7.1. I read in the documentation that the from
> clause can be omitted from a select statement. The example given in the
> documentation is:
> SELECT distributors.* WHERE name = 'Westwood';
>
> I tried it on tables in our database, but it doesn't work. Is that part
> of earlier versions of Postgres?

I assume you mean this.

SELECT distributors.* WHERE distributors.name = 'Westwood';

I know that this example from my own database works.

devel=# SELECT country.country_name
devel-# WHERE country.country_id = province.country_id AND
devel-# province.prov = 'ON';
country_name
--------------
Canada
(1 row)

Can you tell me where you found that example. I couldn't find it in the
documentation sources.

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