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

From Terry Lee Tucker
Subject Re: Marking a Column for Special Use
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Msg-id 201107121152.44444.terry@chosen-ones.org
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In response to Re: Marking a Column for Special Use  (Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>)
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On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 11:47:33 AM Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:25:24AM -0400, Terry Lee Tucker wrote:

> > 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?

>

> Sounds like you want a view, I think.

>

> A


Yes, that is a good idea. Thanks...


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