| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | milimeter(at)163(dot)com, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Problem about pgsql's column alias |
| Date: | 2003-04-16 13:46:36 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0304160142100.3722-100000@peter.localdomain |
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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.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
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