Re: [HACKERS] column aliases

> > >This may go a long way towards explaining why people have been so
> > >readily confused by the implicit-FROM-clause business! 
> > 
> > It *is* confusing, that's for sure!
> 
> IMHO, if there exists a from clause, we could insist,
> that all tables are listed (no implicitly added table),
> since it is really too error prone.
> 
> What I would not like to see removed is the ability to 
> avoid the from clause alltogether. Like in:
> 
> select xor.eval;

This is an interesting suggestion.  I wonder if we can do this.  We can
avoid producing NOTICE messages in this case.

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