[Koha-devel] Ambiguous column names

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Chris Cormack
<chris at bigballofwax.co.nz> wrote:
> I think we don't need to make columns unique across the whole db just when
> selecting do select borrowers.timestamp as something.
> DBIx::Class helps us with this also

I agree with Chris.  In legacy code, doing a "select *" from a join on
multiple tables is should be discouraged, so using the addition of a
new column to locate cases of these to stamp out is preferable.  The
alternative of using a distinct column name has the problem of making
the writing of more general templates and classes more difficult.

Regards,

Galen
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