On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 06:18:53PM -0300, Daniel Serodio (lists) wrote:
> It would be nice if PostgreSQL supported column aliases in WHERE
> clauses, eg:
>
> SELECT left(value, 1) AS first_letter
> FROM some_table
> WHERE first_letter > 'a';
>
> Is this the proper mailing list for such feature requests?
I think this is explicitly disallowed by the spec.
And by Tom:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2002-11/msg01411.php
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Daniel Serodio
>
-Ryan Kelly
