Re: [HACKERS] Column Aliases WAS: Prepping to break every past release...

2009-03-17 Thread decibel
On Mar 14, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: Yes, I think aliasing (especially at the table level) would be handy. We already *have* table aliases. They're called views. What we don't have is column aliases. A view is not the same as a table alias. Even if you take into account the

Re: [HACKERS] Column Aliases WAS: Prepping to break every past release...

2009-03-14 Thread Josh Berkus
Jim, Yes, I think aliasing (especially at the table level) would be handy. We already *have* table aliases. They're called views. What we don't have is column aliases. However, for column aliases to be really useful for more than just application refactoring, we'd have to support