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[Barend K=?ISO-8859-1?B?9g==?=bben]

Auw!

That's what a all a nasty hack...
What's wrong with just doing a
SELECT thing _want_want1,..., thing _want_n
And not include the thing_you_dont_want in the list...?

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Barend Köbben
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On 28-11-2007 23:07, "Chander Ganesan" <chander at otg-nc.com> wrote:

> Matt Doughty wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Is there a way of selecting all fields except one in particular? I'd
>> like to create a query that says something like: select * except
>> field01.  The thing is the query needs to be valid for a number of
>> different tables, each with a different set of fields apart from one
>> (gid), which I don't want to select.
>> 
> Well, you could do the following:
> 
> begin transaction;
> alter table table_name drop column field01;
> select * from table_name;
> rollback;
> 
> I think that should work.  Keep in mind that you wouldn't want to commit
> the transaction, or you would lose the column data.
> 
> Don't try this in other databases, PostgreSQL's DDL is transaction
> safe...so you can do such things.
> 
> Hope that helps