Re: [HACKERS] New TODO item

> Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > New item for TODO list:
> > * SELECT aliname FROM pg_class aliname generates strange error
> 
> You don't need the alias; "SELECT pg_class FROM pg_class" generates
> the same behavior.

TODO updated.

> 
> Looks to me like the parser is failing to reject this query as malformed.
> transformIdent() is willing to take either a column name or a relation
> name (why?), and no one upstream is rejecting the relation-name case.

There is some reason for this that I think Thomas can tell us.

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