Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of mar jun 14 12:59:15 -0400 2011: > Well, someone doing SELECT *, which is probably 90% of the users, are > going to be pretty confused by duplicate columns, asking, "What is the > difference"? For those people this would make things worse than they > are now. > > I would say 90% of users are doing SELECT *, and 10% are joining to > other tables or displaying specific columns. We want to help that 10% > without making that 90% confused.
I think if you had column synonyms, you would get only a single one when doing "select *". The other name would still be accepted in a query that explicitely asked for it. -- Álvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
