Eric Ridge <eeb...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Mark Mielke <m...@mark.mielke.cc> wrote:
>> 2) Not deterministic (i.e. a database change might cause my code to break),
> Okay, I'm inventing a use-case here, but say you have a "users" table
> with various bits of metadata about the user, including password.
> Maybe, regardless of database changes, you never want the password
> column returned: SELECT * EXCLUDING (password) FROM tbl_users;
Well, here you're not only inventing a use-case, but you're making a lot
of contrary-to-fact-and-to-SQL-spec assumptions about when the * notation
gets expanded. This thing wouldn't be useful that way in views.
regards, tom lane
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