Re: Request for qualified column names

Dave Cramer says it is needed for the jdbc spec, somehow. It seems kind
of odd so I don't want to make too complex an implementation.

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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
> 
> > My idea on this after chat with Dave was to add a GUC option that puts
> > the schema.table.column name as the default column label, rather than
> > just the column name.
> 
> Can someone explain why this is needed at all?  There is a reason why the
> SQL standard does not provide for this information: it's not well defined.
> Are you trying to make up a poor substitute for updatable views?
> 
> -- 
> Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net
> 
> 

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