On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 8:08 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Or else not generate > a name at all, in which case there simply wouldn't be a way to refer to > the subquery by name; I'm not sure what that might break though. > Yeah, usually when I want this I don't end up needing refer by name: First I write: SELECT * <with aliasing and stuff> FROM <some complexity here> The decide I need to do some result filtering SELECT * FROM ( <original query> ) --ooops, forgot the alias WHERE ... Its for interactive use - and in fact I don't think I'd want to leave my production queries without names. David J.
