plpgsql question: inserting records - Mailing list pgsql-novice

There has to be an easy way to do this and I'm just being stupid and
missing it.  What I want to do is, in plpgsql, insert a record (of the
right type) into a table without having to list all the columns of the
table.  For example, I'd like to do:

CREATE FUNCTION example(id_to_copy INTEGER) RETURNS VOID AS $_$
DECLARE
    t_rec RECORD;
BEGIN
    FOR t_rec IN
        SELECT
            *
        FROM
            table_with_lots_of_columns
        WHERE
            unique_id = id_to_copy
    IN
        t_rec.unique_id := new_unique_id();
        INSERT INTO table_with_lots_of_columns VALUES t_rec; -- or something
    END LOOP;
END
$_$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

Now, I can do this by listing all the columns from the table, but this
is annoying.  Is there a way to do this cleaner?


Thanks,
Brian