Re: aliases for sequences and other DB objects?

Agoston Postgres wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Is it possible in Postgres to specify aliases for various DB objects, such as tables, views, sequences, etc.? (For
nowI would like to create them for sequences.) 
>
> What I mean is something like in Oracle, such as
>
> create alias my_sequence_alias for my_sequence;
> select nextval('my_sequence_alias');

No.  What would this be used for?

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