"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> This seems like a particularly petty case compared to a lot of other >> extensions we do allow. > > That's exactly the problem. Most of our other extensions are justified > by some significant capability gain. This isn't --- it provides zero > new functionality, and the "convenience" factor amounts to the saving of > one keystroke (ok, maybe two if you insist on a space before the alias). > Pretty weak argument...
I think we're talking about two different things. I'm referring to this: postgres=# select * from (select * from test); ERROR: subquery in FROM must have an alias HINT: For example, FROM (SELECT ...) [AS] foo. I get this about once a day because I frequently type this ad-hoc query and always forget to put the alias in the first time: postgres=# select count(*),n from (select count(*) as n from test group by i) group by n; ERROR: subquery in FROM must have an alias HINT: For example, FROM (SELECT ...) [AS] foo. Not to say that four is a lot larger than one but if we're talking about two different things then we're not likely to reach any kind of agreement... -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
