Re: Marking a Column for Special Use - Mailing list pgsql-general

From David Johnston
Subject Re: Marking a Column for Special Use
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In response to Marking a Column for Special Use  (Terry Lee Tucker <terry@chosen-ones.org>)
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Can you make use of “COMMENT ON …”?

 

From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Terry Lee Tucker
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 11:25 AM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] Marking a Column for Special Use

 

Greetings:

 

I have a scenario in which it would be quite convenient to mark about 20 existing columns in a table such that I can select those fields programatically, based on my flag, for some specialized processing. What I am trying to avoid is storing a list of columns somehere. Is there something like a "user area" in the underlying tables that define a column that could be safely utilized for this purpose?

 

I'm using PostgreSQL 8.3 on Red Hat.

 

TIA

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Terry Tucker

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