On Mar 14, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Yes, I think aliasing (especially at the table level) would be handy.
>
> We already *have* table aliases. They're called "views". What we
> don't have is column aliases.
A view is not the same as a table alias. Even if you take into
account the new updatable views, you're still hosed if you add a
column to the table. I see that being a lot more useful than a simple
column alias (you're correct that we'd need to support calculated
ones, which is indeed a lot harder).
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