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I was going to track down sqlite mailing list messages that relate; so I wouldn't have to repeat myself, but found that the mailing list archives aren't public, so, that's not really viable.

Please do consider extending [the family of functions](https://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/column_database_name.html) to get statement names to include a method to get the alias of a table name from a query.  The only thing one can get now is the original table name.



```
const char *sqlite3_column_database_name(sqlite3_stmt*,int);
const void *sqlite3_column_database_name16(sqlite3_stmt*,int);
const char *sqlite3_column_table_name(sqlite3_stmt*,int);
const void *sqlite3_column_table_name16(sqlite3_stmt*,int);
const char *sqlite3_column_origin_name(sqlite3_stmt*,int);
const void *sqlite3_column_origin_name16(sqlite3_stmt*,int);
```

really needs to include

```
const char *sqlite3_column_table_alias(sqlite3_stmt*,int);
const void *sqlite3_column_table_alias16(sqlite3_stmt*,int);
```