The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 2204
Logged by: Brandon Black
Email address: blblack@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: All
Operating system: All
Description: Feature Req: Unique output column names
Details:
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blah=# create table foo (x integer, y integer);
CREATE TABLE
blah=# select count(x), count(y) from foo;
count | count
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0 | 0
(1 row)
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Would it be reasonable or possible to have these default output column names
be something unique? count_x and count_y, or "1", "2"? Or even name them
literall "count(x)" and "count(y)". As long as there were some reasonable
convention which doesn't cause conflicting duplicate names...
I realize this is fixable by the user with "AS count_x", this is more an
issue that came in writing cross-vendor ORM modules in perl, where most
other database vendors offer some sort of unique naming convention, but
postgres' output column names are indistinguishable, for the same query.
-- Brandon
