Re: Adding column in a recursive query

Thank you David for clarifying

.
Ibrahim Shaame

On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 6:18 PM David G. Johnston <
david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday, March 30, 2026, Ibrahim Shaame <ishaame@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Effectively, after removing the column names from x(jina, namba,
>> nasaba_1) it works now. Thank you very much. But then I don't understand
>> the advantage or inconvenience of naming or not naming the columns there.
>> Is there any explanation somewhere?
>>
>
> SQL is big on providing ways to give aliases/names to things.  It just
> boils down to readability or, more often, conventions, as to which ones to
> use.  The CTE column names clause doesn’t get used much that I have seen.
> You have to write a full query inside the CTE anyway so column aliases are
> more conventional.
>
> David J.
>