> Also, specifying fields won't break things when people add fields to a
> table.
Yeah, but you already have the same problem with SELECT *.
Let me give another example. You have a table with 15 rows. One of those
rows is TEXT. You really do want everything except the text. Doesn't
anyone else think it's a pain to type in all the fields rather than just
doing "* EXCEPT textfield" in your query?
Let me also point out that I see this being more useful as an interactive
development aid than I do as a feature you'd use in deployment.
Ok, I'll even settle for a query that does "* EXCEPT TEXT" which would
eliminate datatypes rather than specific fields :-).
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