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Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Problem about pgsql's column alias 
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> That seems like a rather poor excuse for not supporting a standard feature
> that people seem to ask about every week.

Actually, that was the first complaint that I can recall hearing in
quite some time.

I think this is simply a place where the spec got it wrong, and we
should agree to disagree, as we have done with identifier case-folding
for example ...

			regards, tom lane