Request for qualified column names

From: Dave Cramer <dave(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Request for qualified column names
Date: 2003-01-27 01:01:28
Message-ID: 1043629288.21696.185.camel@inspiron.cramers
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Dave Cramer <dave(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>
Cramer Consulting

This is useful for some O/R tools. The JDBC spec has a getTableName method for each column in a result set.

One issue which will come up is what to do with aggregate, and computed values. For now, we could return null

So for a "select a, b, a+b as sum from c" returns c.a, c.b, ?table?.sum

Dave

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