Re: Thoughts on "SELECT * EXCLUDING (...) FROM ..."? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Thoughts on "SELECT * EXCLUDING (...) FROM ..."?
Date
Msg-id 25854.1320002273@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Thoughts on "SELECT * EXCLUDING (...) FROM ..."?  (Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net>)
Responses Re: Thoughts on "SELECT * EXCLUDING (...) FROM ..."?  (Eric Ridge <eebbrr@gmail.com>)
Re: Thoughts on "SELECT * EXCLUDING (...) FROM ..."?  (Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net>)
Re: Thoughts on "SELECT * EXCLUDING (...) FROM ..."?  (Eric Ridge <eebbrr@gmail.com>)
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Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net> writes:
> The real question to ask ourselves is, if Eric Ridge is willing to do all the
> work to implement this feature, and the code quality is up to the community 
> standards and doesn't break anything else, then will the code be accepted?

It's entirely possible that it will get bounced on standards-compliance
grounds.  In particular, I don't think it's acceptable to introduce a
new reserved keyword for this --- that would fall under the "fails to
not break anything else" category.
        regards, tom lane


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