From 6e140fd1159c422c1dd651e8816b96372b596149 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lukas Eder <lukas.eder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 17:47:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [#1801] Add Table.as(String, String...) to allow for creating
 a table alias with aliased fields - Added some more Javadoc

---
 jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/Table.java     | 7 ++++++-
 jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/TableLike.java | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/Table.java b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/Table.java
index ee047080ab..c8592c4ee9 100644
--- a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/Table.java
+++ b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/Table.java
@@ -98,6 +98,11 @@ public interface Table<R extends Record> extends FieldProvider, TableLike<R> {
      * Note that the case-sensitivity of the returned table depends on
      * {@link Settings#getRenderNameStyle()}. By default, table aliases are
      * quoted, and thus case-sensitive!
+     * <p>
+     * Note, not all databases support derived column lists for their table
+     * aliases. On the other hand, some databases do support derived column
+     * lists, but only for derived tables. jOOQ will try to turn table
+     * references into derived tables to make this syntax work.
      *
      * @param alias The alias name
      * @param fieldAliases The field aliases. Excess aliases are ignored,
@@ -105,7 +110,7 @@ public interface Table<R extends Record> extends FieldProvider, TableLike<R> {
      *            names.
      * @return The table alias
      */
-    @Support
+    @Support({ CUBRID, DERBY, FIREBIRD, HSQLDB, POSTGRES, SQLSERVER, SYBASE })
     Table<R> as(String alias, String... fieldAliases);
 
     /**
diff --git a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/TableLike.java b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/TableLike.java
index e4aa8f96d9..2aebdb4a0c 100644
--- a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/TableLike.java
+++ b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/TableLike.java
@@ -76,6 +76,11 @@ public interface TableLike<R extends Record> extends QueryPart {
      * ) AS alias(fieldAlias1, fieldAlias2)
      * WHERE ... </code>
      * <p>
+     * Note, not all databases support derived column lists for their table
+     * aliases. On the other hand, some databases do support derived column
+     * lists, but only for derived tables. jOOQ will try to turn table
+     * references into derived tables to make this syntax work.
+     * <p>
      * Note that the case-sensitivity of the returned table depends on
      * {@link Settings#getRenderNameStyle()}. By default, table aliases are
      * quoted, and thus case-sensitive!