I know this is probably a strange question, but can you give a column
name an alias? The reason I ask is because I have recently realized I
could use the oid to generate a unique key value for my tables, but I
don't like that idea, because it does not give a very readable (and I
assume portable) way of accessing the key value for the table. So I was
thinking if I could "alias" the name of the oid field in a particular to
something more palatable, then I would at least get around the
readability problem. Is this doable with SQL (or with PostgreSQL for
that matter)?
...james