> On 12 Mar 2024, at 15:19, Tom Lane wrote:
> users are probably going to end up applying an AS clause most of
> the time if they care about the column name at all.
If anything, we could perhaps add a short note in the CASE documentation about
column naming, the way it's phrased now a new user c
"David G. Johnston" writes:
> On Tuesday, March 12, 2024, adjk...@126.com wrote:
>> Nee we change the title of the case-when output column?
> Choosing either a or b as the label seems wrong and probably worth changing
> to something that has no meaning and encourages the application of a column
On Tuesday, March 12, 2024, adjk...@126.com wrote:
>
> Nee we change the title of the case-when output column?
>
>
Choosing either a or b as the label seems wrong and probably worth changing
to something that has no meaning and encourages the application of a column
alias.
David J.
Hi hackers,
Below is a `case when` demo,
```sql
create table foo(a int, b int);
insert into foo values (1, 2);
select case 1 when 1 then a else b end from foo;
```
Currently, psql output is,
```text
b
---
1
(1 row)
```
At the first glance at the output column title, I assume the result of
