On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:25:24AM -0400, Terry Lee Tucker wrote: > Greetings: > > I have a scenario in which it would be quite convenient to mark about 20 > existing columns in a table such that I can select those fields > programatically, based on my flag, for some specialized processing. What I am > trying to avoid is storing a list of columns somehere. Is there something like > a "user area" in the underlying tables that define a column that could be > safely utilized for this purpose? Sounds like you want a view, I think. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general