per-session (or persistent) table (and column) aliases

  CREATE TABLE somereallylongname1 (...);
  CREATE TABLEALIAS name1 somereallylongname1;
  SELECT * FROM name1 ...;

Is there such a thing? I know there's alias in SELECT and completion in
psql (or even views). But this is more like a filesystem
symlink/hardlink. Would this be cool/useful?

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dave