Re: Selecting all but a few fields in a query

On 11/5/07, thefronny(at)gmail(dot)com <thefronny(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I have a table with a lot of fields, some of which are type TEXT. I
> seem to have a lot of occasions where I'd like to see almost all of
> the fields in a query but a SELECT * will pull in the text fields,
> which then wrap across the screen, even using \x. Is there a variation
> of SELECT that is something like 'select all fields except these here
> WHERE...'? This would save me a lot of typing. I checked the docs but
> missed it if it's in there.

Nope, no such animal exists.

You could write something like it in pl/tcl or pl/C or such.