David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> writes: > On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 01:10:29PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> This seems a bridge too far to me. It's just way too common to do >> "select generate_series(1,n)". We could tell people they have to >> rewrite to "select * from generate_series(1,n)", but it would be far >> more polite to do that for them.
> How about making "TABLE generate_series(1,n)" work? It's even > shorter in exchange for some cognitive load. No thanks --- the word after TABLE ought to be a table name, not some arbitrary expression. That's way too much mess to save one keystroke. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers