[Zope] ZSQL: ValueError, Duplicate column name

5 Mar 2001

      hi,

i have the following problem when using ZSQL with special SQL-queries:

When creating a simple ZSQL-method for quering two different tables
with both a column of the same name like

SELECT
  person.last_changed, work.last_changed
FROM
  person, work

a ValueError  "Duplicate column name" occurs.
I located the "problem" in "lib/python/Shared/DC/ZRDB/Results.py":

123:            if schema.has_key(name):
124:                raise ValueError, 'Duplicate column name, %s' %
name

I made a workaround with an external python method directly quering
the database.

But my question is:
Is there also a workaround with dtml/ZSQL?

I do not think that it is a good idea to force unique table column
names for a complex database. Whats the reason for this limitation?
dtml-var ?

Thanks in advance,
Andreas Hölzl
Freiburg, Germany