Re: [HACKERS] column aliases

> >What it looks like to me is that we have a bug in the
> expansion of '*'.
> >It should be generating columns for both the explicit and
> the implicit
> >FROM clause, but it's evidently deciding that it should only produce
> >output columns for the first one.
>
> Yes, since it is joining the two tables it should be returning all
> columns of the join.
>
> >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;

Andreas