diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/function/array/PostgreSQLUnnestFunction.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/function/array/PostgreSQLUnnestFunction.java
index 0b11cda338..bc926434ad 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/function/array/PostgreSQLUnnestFunction.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/function/array/PostgreSQLUnnestFunction.java
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ public class PostgreSQLUnnestFunction extends UnnestFunction {
 						selectableMapping
 				) );
 			}
-			sqlAppender.append( ' ' );
+			sqlAppender.append( " as " );
 			sqlAppender.append( selectableMapping.getSelectionExpression() );
 		} );
 		sqlAppender.appendSql( " from jsonb_array_elements(" );