On 2015-09-05 08:58 PM, Domingo Alvarez Duarte wrote: > Hello ! > > Again your proposition doesn't stand up !
Again? That was my first post on the subject and it was in reply to Darko whom asked for a specific reason, so I supplied one. (Which by the way isn't to say I am 100% convinced by the reason either, but no less, it's a valid reason). > There is no "waste of cpu cycles" for work that is not done, I mean for the > ones that write queries for the machine instead to the humans, they will > continue to have the same results (less parsing steps, besides the parsing > normally accounts to something like 0.01% to 0.0001% or less of the time > spent on the query). If using aliases as valid where/group clause substitutes involved a mere extra line of parsing code, then your assertion might hold water - but I posit that believing that is akin to believing the Earth is flat. Cheers, Ryan