From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: milimeter@163.com, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Problem about pgsql's column alias
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 13:00:55 -0400
Message-ID: <10849.1050339655@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> AS is not optional in Postgres, and will never be so unless we choose to
>> drop support for postfix operators, which I consider an unlikely choice.
> Well, we could drop the support for postfix operators in aliasing clauses
> that omit the AS.
I think it would be a bad idea in any case; it would mask errors too
easily. For example, you meant to say "SELECT a + b, ..." but wrote
"SELECT a b, ...". Or how about this:
SELECT 'foo'::character varying
Is "varying" an alias or part of the type name?
We've recently seen at least one comparable case where someone
unintentionally wrote what looked to the parser like a FROM-clause
alias, and was mystified at the behavior (I forget the details, but it
was just a week or two back). Omitting AS in FROM-clauses is tolerable
because the possible syntax in that area is fairly restricted, but I
think the spec authors were just plain foolish to allow it in the SELECT
targetlist.
regards, tom lane
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