Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> But I don't think your suggestions of the table name or alias work;
>> they could conflict with an actual column name.
> Presumably it'd follow similar rules to SELECT -- resolve the column
> name in the face of ambiguity.
Meh. Then you could have a query that works fine until you add a column
to the table, and it stops working. If nobody ever used column names
identical to table names it'd be all right, but unfortunately people
seem to do that a lot...
regards, tom lane
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