Le 14/10/2021 à 14:28, Pavel Stehule a écrit :


čt 14. 10. 2021 v 14:13 odesílatel Vik Fearing <v...@postgresfriends.org <mailto:v...@postgresfriends.org>> napsal:

    On 10/14/21 1:47 PM, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
    > Hi Gilles,
    >
    >> Any though and interest in this feature?
    >
    > Personally, I wouldn't call this feature particularly useful.
    `SELECT
    > *` is intended for people who are working with DBMS directly
    e.g. via
    > psql and want to see ALL columns.

    I disagree strongly with this.  It is really annoying when working
    interactively with psql on a table that has a PostGIS geometry column,
    or any other large blobby type column.

    I have not looked at the patch, but +1 for the feature.


Cannot be better to redefine some strategies for output for some types.

I can agree so sometimes in some environments proposed features can be nice, but it can be a strong footgun too.

Maybe some strange data can be filtered in psql and it can be better solution. I agree, so usually print long geometry in psql is useless.


Pavel this doesn't concern only output but input too, think about the INSERT or COPY without a column list. We can add such filter in psql but how about other clients? They all have to implement their own filtering method. I think the HIDDEN attribute provide a common and basic way to implement that in all client application.


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