Join Alias Columns SQL

Question

I am trying struggling with joining alias named columns. Overall, I want an output with the with date, hour, and the actual and forecasted (most recent before 10am on the pr

Answer 1

'Date' alias can't be seen from there.

You can use few tables after WITH, so I'll advice you to move second select there.

I'm not completly sure about weather.meso table structure but by guesing based on your query, this should work:

WITH
    forecast_prep AS (
        SELECT
              date_trunc('day', foretime) :: DATE AS Foredate,
              extract(HOUR FROM foretime) + 1     AS foreHE,
              lat,
              lon,
              max(windspeed) as windspeed,
              max(as_of)                          AS as_of
        FROM weather.forecast
        WHERE date_trunc('day', foretime) :: DATE - as_of >= INTERVAL '16 hours'
        GROUP BY Foredate, foreHE, lat, lon
   ),
   tmp AS (
      SELECT
        meso.station,
        meso.lat,
        meso.lon,
        meso.timestmp,
        date_trunc('day', meso.timestmp) :: DATE  AS Date,
        extract(HOUR FROM meso.timestmp) + 1      AS HE,
        CAST(AVG(meso.windspd) AS NUMERIC(19, 2)) AS Actual
      FROM weather.meso
      GROUP BY station, lat, lon, timestmp, Date, HE
   )
SELECT 
    tmp.station, tmp.Date, tmp.HE, tmp.Actual, forecast_prep.windspeed, forecast_prep.as_of
FROM tmp
INNER JOIN forecast_prep ON (
    tmp.lat = forecast_prep.lat 
    AND tmp.lon = forecast_prep.lon 
    AND tmp.Date = forecast_prep.Foredate
    AND tmp.HE = forecast_prep.foreHE
)
WHERE 
    (tmp.timestmp BETWEEN '2016-02-01' AND '2016-02-02') 
    AND (tmp.station = 'KSBN')
GROUP BY 
    tmp.station, tmp.Date, tmp.HE, forecast_prep.windspeed, forecast_prep.as_of, tmp.Actual
ORDER BY tmp.Date, tmp.HE ASC;

Like in first example right here https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/queries-with.html