Re: [HACKERS] column aliases

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>, "'PostgreSQL-development'" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] column aliases
Date: 2000-01-24 17:03:06
Message-ID: 200001241703.MAA19882@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> >> 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.
>
> Sure --- only emit the notice if there is at least one RTE that *is*
> marked inFromCl.

Seems like this would avoid most annoying messages.

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