Re: Docs claim that "select myTable.*" wildcard won't let you assign column names

 

From http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-select.html (and previous version too):

  ##SELECT List

    <...>

    Instead of an expression, * can be written in the output list as a shorthand for all the columns of the selected rows.

    Also, you can write table_name.* as a shorthand for the columns coming from just that table. In these cases it is not

    possible to specify new names with AS; the output column names will be the same as the table columns' names.

 

But, the docs elsewhere feature a query example show the use of a wildcard for columns

as well as allowing you to assign names to as many of the leading columns as you wish:

 

WITH T0 as ( SELECT 1,2,3 )
SELECT T0.* from T0 as T0(foo,bar) ;

 

 foo │ bar │ ?column?
─────┼─────┼──────────
   1 │   2 │        3
(1 row)

 

The following curious variant also works:

 

WITH T0 as ( SELECT 1,2,3 )
SELECT justAnythingReally.* from T0 as justAnythingReally(foo,bar) ;

 

The synoposis/grammer at the top doesn't hint at this either. I've checked and this has been supported since at least 9.2 .