
> > That seems like a rather poor excuse for not supporting a standard feature
> > that people seem to ask about every week.
> 
> Actually, that was the first complaint that I can recall hearing in
> quite some time.

Imho it is well documented, and the answer has always been that it is not easily doable,
so people don't complain, but I guess they are none the less annoyed.

I would vote for doing the change.

Andreas


Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:25:29 +0200
"Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at>
Re: [GENERAL] Problem about pgsql's column alias 
On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 10:25, Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD wrote:
> 
> > > That seems like a rather poor excuse for not supporting a standard feature
> > > that people seem to ask about every week.
> > 
> > Actually, that was the first complaint that I can recall hearing in
> > quite some time.
> 
> Imho it is well documented, and the answer has always been that it is not easily doable,
> so people don't complain, but I guess they are none the less annoyed.
> 
> I would vote for doing the change.
> 

Tom raised the issue of 

> SELECT 'foo'::character varying
> Is "varying" an alias or part of the type name?

which I've not seen addressed except for the suggestion to deprecate the
use of :: for casting, which I would sure have reservations about. 

Robert Treat


15 Apr 2003 11:49:11 -0400
Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
Re: [GENERAL] Problem about pgsql's column alias