It seems we did come up with a use case in the procpid discussion. The ability to change the names of columns/databases etc, to handle the fixing of bad decision decisions during development over time.
Thoughts?
Instead of just synonyms of columns, why don't we think about implementing virtual columns (feature as named in other RDBMS). This is the ability to define a column in a table which is derived using an expression around other non-virtual columns. I agree it would be much more difficult and some may even argue it is pointless in the presence of views and expression indexes, but I leave that as an exercise for others.
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