Re: Proposition for autoname columns

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 12:18:49AM +0000, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > I think we could do it, but it would only work if the column was output
> > as a single json value, and not a multi-key/value field.  I am afraid if
> > we tried to do it, the result would be too inconsistent to be useful.
> 
> Could this be done via the support function, so that the top-level
> operator/function in each select list item can return a suggested column
> name if the relevant arguments are constants?

Yes, the user explicitly calling a function would be much easier to
predict.

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