Re: Request for qualified column names

Larry Rosenman wrote:
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> --On Monday, January 27, 2003 15:49:06 -0500 Bruce Momjian
> <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
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> >
> > My idea on this after chat with Dave was to add a GUC option that puts
> > the schema.table.column name as the default column label, rather than
> > just the column name. (That's so easy, I think even I could do it.) If
> > they over-ride it with AS, or if it is an aggregate or FROM subquery, we
> > just return the default label as we do now --- we could return no label
> > for those cases, but that seems too drastic. I am not overly excited
> > about doing this at the protocol level unless there is major need for it.
> DONT DEFAULT TO THE NEW ONE WITHOUT NOTICE!
>
> You will ***BREAK*** people.

Of course we are not going to default this to ON.

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