Ian Barwick <barwick(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> 2010/3/30 Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>> we can use a non existing column "name". What does mean?
> FYI this has caused me (and presumably a few other people) a bit of
> head-scratching, e.g.:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2010-03/msg00362.php
We could make that stop happening if we were willing to restrict the
cases in which an I/O conversion would be applied, but I think the cure
might be worse than the disease. It would be an entirely arbitrary
restriction of a feature.
regards, tom lane