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Re: Mandatory AS keyword in SELECT statements

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On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 09:31:41AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Unfortunately, this is on our TODO list as something we are not planning
> to do:
> 	
> 	* Allow AS in "SELECT col AS label" to be optional (not wanted)
> 	
> 	  Because we support postfix operators, it isn't possible to make AS
> 	  optional and continue to use bison.

For reference, the problematic examples are:

SELECT a + b;   -- Is this (a +) aliased to "b", or (a+b) with no alias
SELECT 'foo'::character varying -- Is "varying" an alias or part of the type name?

See this thread:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2003-04/msg00436.php

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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