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Re: selecting all columns but one

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On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:12 AM, blackwater dev<blackwaterdev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a table with a lot of columns.  One of the columns I want to alias so
> have a query of:
> select *, column as newname from mytable.
> The problem is I now have column and newname in the results.  I don't want
> to select column by column.  How can I do a select * but omit one?
> Thanks!

there is no easy way.  the only way I can think of is to build the
query with dynamic sql (either in pl/pgsql or the client), and query
the system catalogs so you can build the column list filtering out the
column you don't want.

merlin

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