[Qgis-user] How to get rid of table name while joining table

[Anita Graser]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Harish <harry.om2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I do not want name of table to be included in attribute names when joining
> tabular data to vector layers which are further truncated when saving the
> layer permanently.

Hi Harish,
Layer names are prepended to avoid troube with columns having the same
name (often the case with "id" or "name" columns).
You can change the layer name to empty, then only an underscore _ will
be prepended - this saves characters.
An alternative is to open a feature request for adding an option to
not prepend layer names.
Best wishes,
Anita