Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of mar jun 14 12:59:15 -0400 2011:
> Well, someone doing SELECT *, which is probably 90% of the users, are
> going to be pretty confused by duplicate columns, asking, "What is the
> difference"? For those people this would make things worse than they
> are now.
>
> I would say 90% of users are doing SELECT *, and 10% are joining to
> other tables or displaying specific columns. We want to help that 10%
> without making that 90% confused.
I think if you had column synonyms, you would get only a single one when
doing "select *". The other name would still be accepted in a query
that explicitely asked for it.
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