On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> What if relabeling support were to spread some more?
>
> The only example I can think of besides XML is JSON. There might be a
> few more. Basically, relabelling is a handy shortcut when you are
> serializing data and want to avoid specifying a list of columns and an
> (almost) identical list of labels.
The whole relabeling thing seems like a seriously silly idea. Why is
it at all a shortcut to use "AS" instead of "," ? The relabeling adds
zero actual expressiveness, it just makes a fancy way to pass an
argument.
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greg