Re: [GENERAL] Problem about pgsql's column alias - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Problem about pgsql's column alias
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0304160142100.3722-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] Problem about pgsql's column alias  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [GENERAL] Problem about pgsql's column alias
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Tom Lane writes:

> I think this is simply a place where the spec got it wrong, and we
> should agree to disagree, as we have done with identifier case-folding
> for example ...

That is not at all the same situation.  The identifier-case folding goes
back to an unconscious design decision years ago and changing it now would
break everything.  Allowing column aliases without AS would break nothing.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net



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