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From: | "Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at> |
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To: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | <milimeter(at)163(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL Development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Problem about pgsql's column alias |
Date: | 2003-04-15 14:25:29 |
Message-ID: | 46C15C39FEB2C44BA555E356FBCD6FA4961F82@m0114.s-mxs.net |
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> > That seems like a rather poor excuse for not supporting a standard feature
> > that people seem to ask about every week.
>
> Actually, that was the first complaint that I can recall hearing in
> quite some time.
Imho it is well documented, and the answer has always been that it is not easily doable,
so people don't complain, but I guess they are none the less annoyed.
I would vote for doing the change.
Andreas
From: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
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To: | Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, milimeter(at)163(dot)com, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Problem about pgsql's column alias |
Date: | 2003-04-15 15:49:11 |
Message-ID: | 1050421751.9816.131.camel@camel |
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On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 10:25, Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD wrote:
>
> > > That seems like a rather poor excuse for not supporting a standard feature
> > > that people seem to ask about every week.
> >
> > Actually, that was the first complaint that I can recall hearing in
> > quite some time.
>
> Imho it is well documented, and the answer has always been that it is not easily doable,
> so people don't complain, but I guess they are none the less annoyed.
>
> I would vote for doing the change.
>
Tom raised the issue of
> SELECT 'foo'::character varying
> Is "varying" an alias or part of the type name?
which I've not seen addressed except for the suggestion to deprecate the
use of :: for casting, which I would sure have reservations about.
Robert Treat