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

From Terry Lee Tucker
Subject Marking a Column for Special Use
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Msg-id 201107121125.25025.terry@chosen-ones.org
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Re: Marking a Column for Special Use  (Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>)
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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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