Altnerate Column Return Names

If I do a select * from table1, table2 where table1.id = table2.id I 
normally get two columns returned with a column identifier of id.

Such as
 id | name | data | id | name | data
----+------+------+----+------+------    |      |      |    |      |

Is there anyway to get the result to return
 table1.id | table1.name | table1.data | table2.id | ,,,
-----------+-------------+-------------+-----------+- ...

It seems awkward, however the only way I've been able to work around this 
is to use column names prefixed with the table name.

One of my projects is using PHP and I"m sure that the hash table they 
create to select rows is determined from the column names returned from a 
query.

Thanks,
Thomas


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