Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> AFAICS removing columns from the inner query because they have duplicate
> names would violate the SQL spec, so it's not going to happen.

That's really what I was asking I guess. Does the spec require the current
behaviour.

An alternative would be some way to explicitly remove columns from a result
set.

Something like

SELECT a+1 AS a, b+1 AS b, * EXCEPT (a,b)
  FROM (SELECT 1 AS a, 2 as b, 3 as c)

-- 
greg


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