David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 06:22:17PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The problem with that is that "AS foo" already has a meaning, and it's
>> not this one.
> How about "AS (foo)" ?
What if you want to specify an alias? This doesn't work:
FROM myverylongfunctionname(...) AS alias(typename)
because, again, that syntax already has a meaning.
You could possibly do something with a cast:
FROM CAST(myfunc(...) AS typename) [ AS alias ]
This is at least syntactically OK. Not sure what the implementation
issues might be.
regards, tom lane