Ășt 1. 2. 2022 v 4:38 odesĂlatel Julien Rouhaud <[email protected]> napsal:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 10:05:44PM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> >
> > I don't feel good about forcing an alias. relname doesn't ensure
> > uniqueness. You can have two views with the same name from different
> > schemas. Moreover this field is necessary only when a deparsed query is
> > printed, not always.
>
> Yes I agree.
>
> > Isn't possible to compute the correct subquery alias in print time when
> it
> > is missing?
>
> Actually I think that the current code already does everything to generate
> unique refnames, it's just that they don't get printed for a query after
> view
> expansions. I modified the patch to simply make sure that an alias is
> displayed when it's a subquery and the output using a custom
> pg_get_query_def
> is like that:
>
> # select pg_get_query_def('select * from nsp1.v1');
> pg_get_query_def
> -------------------------------
> SELECT nb +
> FROM ( SELECT 1 AS nb) v1;+
>
> (1 row)
>
>
> # select pg_get_query_def('select * from nsp1.v1, nsp2.v1');
> pg_get_query_def
> -------------------------------
> SELECT v1.nb, +
> v1_1.nb +
> FROM ( SELECT 1 AS nb) v1,+
> ( SELECT 1 AS nb) v1_1; +
>
> (1 row)
>
I tested your patch, and it looks so it is working without any problem. All
tests passed.
There is just one question. If printalias = true will be active for all
cases or just with some flag?
I didn't find any visible change of this modification without your
function, so maybe it can be active for all cases without any condition.
Regards
Pavel