Is there, or has there ever been, a discussion about introducing syntax to handle specifying which columns you do NOT want to output in the SELECT list?
The use case I am running into is mostly within VIEWS. I want to specify "SELECT * FROM table" but there are a couple of fields that I do NOT want to output (for instance a password hash field for a user table). I guess it would probably be better form to move those columns to a separate enhanced permissions table but since PostgreSQL allows for per-column permissions that is not strictly necessary. Listing all the wanted columns is not desirable though obviously possible. The main reason to avoid doing so is to allow for a view to output all the columns of the underlying tables. If I drop/create the view after altering the underlying tables the new view will have the additional columns without any direct change to the view being required. David J.
