Gregory Stark escribió:
> The upside is the convenience which after all is the same upside as most of
> our spec grammar extensions. Many many programmers are accustomed to entering
> ad-hoc queries of this form and forcing them to enter an alias for no purpose
> is just silly pedanticism from their point of view. The portability of ad-hoc
> queries is meaningless and if you don't refer to the alias in the query then
> it's truly pointless.
So there's the compromise: allow not specifying an alias only if it's
not used in the rest of the query at all, so the subquery would be
effectively anonymous.
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