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From Craig Ringer
Subject Re: RFE: Column aliases in WHERE clauses
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Msg-id 5059BC42.7010906@ringerc.id.au
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In response to Re: RFE: Column aliases in WHERE clauses  (Steve Haresnape <s.haresnape@creativeintegrity.co.nz>)
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On 09/19/2012 02:36 PM, Steve Haresnape wrote:

> Since some dialects support the idiom and others don't there can't be
> any compelling reason to withhold support. It's really a matter of style.
> For my money the DRY style is better.

So you're saying that you want the implementation to effectively clone
the aliased SELECT term into the WHERE clause?

If so, what about functions with side-effects?

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Craig Ringer

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