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

From Terry Lee Tucker
Subject Re: Marking a Column for Special Use
Date
Msg-id 201107121153.07967.terry@chosen-ones.org
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In response to Re: Marking a Column for Special Use  ("David Johnston" <polobo@yahoo.com>)
List pgsql-general

On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 11:33:34 AM David Johnston wrote:

> Can you make use of "COMMENT ON ."?

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> 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

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> Greetings:

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> 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?

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> I'm using PostgreSQL 8.3 on Red Hat.

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> TIA


That's a good idea. Thanks...


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