Re: selecting all columns but one - Mailing list pgsql-general

From A. Kretschmer
Subject Re: selecting all columns but one
Date
Msg-id 20090728132735.GI1868@a-kretschmer.de
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In response to selecting all columns but one  (blackwater dev <blackwaterdev@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
In response to blackwater dev :
> I have a table with a lot of columns.  One of the columns I want to alias so
> have a query of:
>
> select *, column as newname from mytable.
>
> The problem is I now have column and newname in the results.  I don't want to
> select column by column.  How can I do a select * but omit one?

You can't.

The only way: ask information_schema.columns and build a string that
contains all except the special column and execute that string. (within
a function, plpgsql).


Regards, Andreas
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