"Scott Miller" <smiller@duels.com> writes:
> One problem I've had in development recently is the inability to get the
> aliased name of a table from a query. We're using a PHP framework for
> querying, which internally uses pg_field_name to retrieve the select list
> field name, which is great. There is alwo pg_table_name, to retrieve the
> table the field originated from. The problem is that this returns the name
> of the table, unaliased. If a query does a self join, you can't retrieve a
> distinguishing table alias name for that field.

Supporting this would require a protocol change (to allow an additional
field in the result description message). So don't hold your breath :-(

regards, tom lane

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