On 2015-03-02 16:32:53 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > > The easiest way to solve this would teach ruleutils.c to simply always > > attach AS clauses for auto-generated columnnames. Won't look too pretty > > though. Does somebody have a better idea? > > No, it would look awful :-(. But I think we might have enough > infrastructure in there to notice whether the column is actually > referenced or not. So we could label the columns only if necessary, > which would at least limit the ugliness.
Yea, that'd be better. I guess I'll try to figure out how that code works... > Another idea would be to reconsider whether we need to force display > of the cast, though I'm a bit worried about the possible side-effects. Seems like a fair bit riskier approach to me, so I'm not inclined to follow it. Might have been the better idea originally, but it seems like a change would be far more likely to affect people. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
