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.
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