That makes sense, however for my general use case I'd also like the
ability to mark some columns as not match-able by `SELECT * FROM
<table>` and `TABLE <table>` at table definition without having to
create dedicated views (think of the way system attributes such as
tableoid, cmax, cmin ... are handled) .
Typical use case: manual inspection of rows containing an hefty payload
field and some metadata ones; the payload more often than not isn't the
bit I'm interested in, but the size of it dominates the output making it
hard to read (granted - psql has formatting options to handle that, but
having a sane default at the table level would help a lot).
One may argue that such behaviour breaks the principle of least
surprise, so all of this should probably be strictly opt-in (and perhaps
queries could output some hints that such hidden columns exists).
Regards
F
On 25/02/2020 10:30, Josef Šimánek wrote:
Just to mention, similar concept can be found in Google BigQuery.
https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/query-syntax#select-except
https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/query-syntax#select-replace
út 25. 2. 2020 v 11:18 odesílatel Stanislav Motyčka
<stanislav.motycka@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stanislav.motycka@xxxxxxxxx>> napsal:
Hello,
Sometimes (for tables with many columns) it would be better and
easier to write "SELECT" statement with clause "EXCEPT":
"SELECT * [EXCEPT col1 [,col2]] FROM ..."
It's easier to write "except" one or two columns from all (*) as to
write names of all columns besides one or two.
What do you thin about it?
Best regards
Stano Motycka
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