Request for qualified column names - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dave Cramer
Subject Request for qualified column names
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Msg-id 1043629288.21696.185.camel@inspiron.cramers
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In response to Re: Can we revisit the thought of PostgreSQL 7.2.4?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Dave Cramer <dave@fastcrypt.com>
Cramer Consulting

This is useful for some O/R tools. The JDBC spec has a getTableName method for each column in a result set.

One issue which will come up is what to do with aggregate, and computed values. For now, we could return null

So for a "select a, b, a+b as sum from c" returns c.a, c.b, ?table?.sum

Dave



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