Re: [HACKERS] column aliases

> > >This may go a long way towards explaining why people have been so
> > >readily confused by the implicit-FROM-clause business!
> >
> > It *is* confusing, that's for sure!
>
> IMHO, if there exists a from clause, we could insist,
> that all tables are listed (no implicitly added table),
> since it is really too error prone.
>
> What I would not like to see removed is the ability to
> avoid the from clause alltogether. Like in:
>
> select xor.eval;

This is an interesting suggestion. I wonder if we can do this. We can
avoid producing NOTICE messages in this case.

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