| From: | decibel <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Column Aliases WAS: Prepping to break every past release... |
| Date: | 2009-03-17 20:08:25 |
| Message-ID: | 8DE95F84-3ABA-484F-8C05-B631A6260FF7@decibel.org |
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On Mar 14, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Yes, I think aliasing (especially at the table level) would be handy.
>
> We already *have* table aliases. They're called "views". What we
> don't have is column aliases.
A view is not the same as a table alias. Even if you take into
account the new updatable views, you're still hosed if you add a
column to the table. I see that being a lot more useful than a simple
column alias (you're correct that we'd need to support calculated
ones, which is indeed a lot harder).
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Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect decibel(at)decibel(dot)org
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