Am Donnerstag, 3. April 2008 schrieb Gregory Stark:
> \old means something *today*. In the proposed syntax by creating the alias
> you're changing what it means.
Yes. There are two complementary responses to that:
1. That's an intentional, useful feature of aliases.
2. If you don't like it, don't use it.
By your line of argument, we couldn't ever add any new commands in psql
anyway.
