2011/10/31 Christopher Browne <cbbro...@gmail.com>: > There is legitimate reason to reject this on the basis of nondeterminism. > > While we are surely obliged to "hold our noses" and support "SELECT *", as: > A) The SQL standard obliges us, and > B) People already use it a lot, > > Neither of those factors hold true for the EXCLUDING notion. So all things > are decidedly not equal. > > By all means I find it an interesting feature, but that shouldn't be > mistaken for necessarily being a desirable feature. > > I don't think I wish it. We're telling our developers not to use "select > *", and I don't think having "select * except " would change that policy, > beyond requiring us to waste time explaining : >
+1 It can carry some new problems with cache - actually we don't need rebuild views after additing column to table or view Pavel > "No, we're not changing policy. The fact that PGDG added this to 9.2 does > *not* imply our policy was wrong." -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
