| From: | Eric Ridge <eebbrr(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org>, Marcin Mańk <marcin(dot)mank(at)gmail(dot)com>, Mark Mielke <mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc>, Darren Duncan <darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)net>, David Wilson <david(dot)t(dot)wilson(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Thoughts on "SELECT * EXCLUDING (...) FROM ..."? |
| Date: | 2011-11-02 14:49:38 |
| Message-ID: | CANcm6watg88zZrUMnRYUv_uuUFPmB9toBVg+f=_2GSwGn2_SKQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Doesn't mean anything, I think --- the SQL standard seems to exclude it.
> It's fairly hard to prevent it at the grammar level, since we regard
> "foo.*" as a type of primitive expression, but I suspect it might be a
> good idea for transformTargetList to throw an error instead of silently
> ignoring the column label.
Let me take a stab at fixing it in the grammar... if it's even do-able.
If it can be fixed at the grammar, it'll get me a lot closer to doing
what I want to do with the actual feature.
eric
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