referencing by column name not working..? about sublime_rainbow_csv

[gregsadetsky]

I used git bisect and found the commit that introduced the problem: it's this one.

The select a1.col_name syntax works in the commit right before that.

Thanks!

[mechatroner]

Hi Greg,
Sorry about this, At first I thought that this is a bug, but it is actually a feature and I should have added a meaningful error message before introducing this breaking change.
But it should work if you add with (header) at the end of the query, the syntax is similar to with (nolock) modifier in MS SQL server - and this would automatically skip the first record e.g. you can now use select int(a.col_name) syntax without adding where NR > 1. Also, this always carries the header record to the output e.g. Select top 10 * order by a1 with (header). And you can also set rbql_with_headers setting to true if the majority of the tables you are dealing with have headers, and if one or two don't have them - you can override it with with (noheader). It would be cool if Sublime Text would allow extensions to create a checkbox to control this with GUI on a per-query basis, but there is no such option right now, unfortunately, so the only 2 ways to control this are either the setting or the query modifier.
Please let me know if it didn't work! Thanks!

[gregsadetsky]

Ah, that makes perfect sense, thank you! with (header) worked, and the rbql_with_headers setting is really useful. I just enabled it and yes, select a.col_name works! That's really great.

Just out of curiosity, is there any downside to having rbql_with_headers always on?

(I'll also close the issue since there isn't a bug in the package)

[mechatroner]

Glad it worked!

Just out of curiosity, is there any downside to having rbql_with_headers always on?

I think the only downside is that it is possible to forget that rbql_with_headers is on, run a query using a1, a2 etc, and inadvertently skip the first row.