Andrew,
> Back on that track, I'd like to see a facility whereby we could provide
> an alias (or synonym, to use a nearby subject) columns and other
> objects. That would help to overcome naming glitches without breaking
> things quite so much.
Believe it or not, a large PostgreSQL user in LA just buttonholed me
about that particular feature idea at SCALE. So it might be generally
useful as well -- not just for the system catalogs, bug to allow
businesses with long-use databases to manage change over time.
--Josh