Re: Improving inferred query column names

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Improving inferred query column names
Date: 2023-02-22 13:23:51
Message-ID: 85015751-7a0a-9bbf-a6b6-aae68863e197@enterprisedb.com
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On 20.02.23 16:17, David G. Johnston wrote:
> I think we should just do it and not care about what breaks.  There has
> never been any guarantee about these.
>
>
> I'm going to toss a -1 into the ring but if this does go through a
> strong request that it be disabled via a GUC.  The ugliness of that
> option is why we shouldn't do this.
>
> Defacto reality is still a reality we are on the hook for.
>
> I too find the legacy design choice to be annoying but not so much that
> changing it seems like a good idea.

Well, a small backward compatibility GUC might not be too cumbersome.

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