On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Jim Nasby <j...@nasby.net> wrote:
> If you know that you want all fields except X, Y and Z, why should you be 
> forced to manually cut and paste all the other fields into the view 
> definition? That's wasted time and effort that could better be spent 
> elsewhere.

I agree.  This isn't something I would recommend that people do in the
queries they embed in their application, but for ad-hoc queries it
comes up all the time.

OTOH, I'm slightly afraid of how much work it would take to implement
this properly.

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Robert Haas
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