Re: Thoughts on "SELECT * EXCLUDING (...) FROM ..."?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Darren Duncan <darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)net>
Cc: Eric Ridge <eebbrr(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Thoughts on "SELECT * EXCLUDING (...) FROM ..."?
Date: 2011-10-30 19:17:53
Message-ID: 25854.1320002273@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Darren Duncan <darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)net> writes:
> The real question to ask ourselves is, if Eric Ridge is willing to do all the
> work to implement this feature, and the code quality is up to the community
> standards and doesn't break anything else, then will the code be accepted?

It's entirely possible that it will get bounced on standards-compliance
grounds. In particular, I don't think it's acceptable to introduce a
new reserved keyword for this --- that would fall under the "fails to
not break anything else" category.

regards, tom lane

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