Thanks for the pointers, Tom. Sorry my search didn't turn those up. On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 3:18 PM Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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
