On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> What if relabeling support were to spread some more? > > The only example I can think of besides XML is JSON. There might be a > few more. Basically, relabelling is a handy shortcut when you are > serializing data and want to avoid specifying a list of columns and an > (almost) identical list of labels.
The whole relabeling thing seems like a seriously silly idea. Why is it at all a shortcut to use "AS" instead of "," ? The relabeling adds zero actual expressiveness, it just makes a fancy way to pass an argument. -- greg -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
