On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Gauthier, Dave <dave.gauth...@intel.com> wrote:

> Does PG support the notion of a colum alias?

No, the closest thing would be alias names from a VIEW.

> Is there a way to assign 2 different names for the same column to support a
> situation like above?

No.

> I was thinking that a view might do this, but is not a direct table query.
> It’s also not editable.

you can make your view editable fairly easily by implementing rules.
However, there is a limitation with rules in the case of multiple
record modifications.

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