Github user narahari92 commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/metamodel/pull/20#issuecomment-99019418 We are definitely not getting rid of alias. Instead we are using the select item as is. i.e. select item column name or expression along with its alias. In the unit test case you can see all aliases present.
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