column aliases?
Hi:
Does PG support the notion of a colum alias? I'm not talking about "select foo as fii....", I'm thinking more along the lines of supporting 2 different names for the same column. For example, a tablle has a column named "social_security_number". Queries may ask for this column as defined ("social_security_number") but some may ask for is using "ssn".
Is there a way to assign 2 different names for the same column to support a situation like above?
I was thinking that a view might do this, but is not a direct table query. It's also not editable.
Thanks for any help !!!
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Gauthier, Dave <dave.gauthier@intel.com> wrote:
Does PG support the notion of a colum alias?
No, the closest thing would be alias names from a VIEW.
Is there a way to assign 2 different names for the same column to support a
situation like above?
No.
I was thinking that a view might do this, but is not a direct table query.
It’s also not editable.
you can make your view editable fairly easily by implementing rules.
However, there is a limitation with rules in the case of multiple
record modifications.
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