CREATE TABLE AS COMMAND

To whom it may concern,

The following select works fine until I use the CREATE TEMP TABLE AS command because of the matching participant_id's in each table.

SELECT * FROM addresses LEFT OUTER JOIN contacts ON
contacts.participant_id = addresses.participant_id;

Running the select obviously works fine, it's just when I try to create a table when I runn into problems. Do I have to list all of the fields except the one I don't want, or is there another way? Thanks in advance.

Bob Powell

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 13:20:27 -0500,
Bob Powell <Bob(at)hotchkiss(dot)org> wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
>
> The following select works fine until I use the CREATE TEMP TABLE AS command because of the matching participant_id's in each table.
>
> SELECT * FROM addresses LEFT OUTER JOIN contacts ON
> contacts.participant_id = addresses.participant_id;
>
> Running the select obviously works fine, it's just when I try to create a table when I runn into problems. Do I have to list all of the fields except the one I don't want, or is there another way? Thanks in advance.

You probably want to use an explicit column list instead of * so that
things get associated correctly.

> On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 13:20:27 -0500,
> Bob Powell <Bob(at)hotchkiss(dot)org> wrote:
>
> > SELECT * FROM addresses LEFT OUTER JOIN contacts ON
> > contacts.participant_id = addresses.participant_id;
> >
> > Running the select obviously works fine, it's just when I try to create a
> > table when I runn into problems. Do I have to list all of the fields
> > except the one I don't want, or is there another way? Thanks in advance.

You could use USING (participant_id) instead of ON. That only produces a
single participant_id column. It's also less typing.

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