BUG #2204: Feature Req: Unique output column names

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference:      2204
Logged by:          Brandon Black
Email address:      blblack@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: All
Operating system:   All
Description:        Feature Req: Unique output column names
Details:

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blah=# create table foo (x integer, y integer);
CREATE TABLE
blah=# select count(x), count(y) from foo;
 count | count
-------+-------
     0 |     0
(1 row)

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Would it be reasonable or possible to have these default output column names
be something unique?  count_x and count_y, or "1", "2"?  Or even name them
literall "count(x)" and "count(y)".  As long as there were some reasonable
convention which doesn't cause conflicting duplicate names...

I realize this is fixable by the user with "AS count_x", this is more an
issue that came in writing cross-vendor ORM modules in perl, where most
other database vendors offer some sort of unique naming convention, but
postgres' output column names are indistinguishable, for the same query.

-- Brandon