Nikhil Benesch <nikhil.benesch@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Both DuckDB and Snowflake, as of recently, support a nonstandard `EXCLUDE` > clause in the SELECT list to allow excluding fields from a wildcard [0] [1]. > Example from the DuckDB announcement [2]: > SELECT * EXCLUDE (jar_jar_binks, midichlorians) FROM star_wars > Is there any appetite for adding this feature to PostgreSQL? This has been discussed before and not gone anywhere, e.g. [1] [2]. I think there have been more threads but that was all I found in a quick archive search. Anyway, as those threads illustrate, there is a lot of room for variation in how you spell it, where you can write it, and so on. My own inclination is to not do anything here until/unless the SQL committee standardizes something, because there's too much risk of finding ourselves incompatible with the standard. regards, tom lane [1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/d51371a2-f221-1cf3-4a7d-b2242d4dafdb%40gmail.com [2] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CANcm6wbR3EG7t-G%3DTxy64Yt8nR6YbpzFRuTewJQ%2BkCq%3DrZ8M2A%40mail.gmail.com
