[GENERAL] Marking a Column for Special Use

2011-07-12 Thread Terry Lee Tucker
Greetings: I have a scenario in which it would be quite convenient to mark about 20 existing columns in a table such that I can select those fields programatically, based on my flag, for some specialized processing. What I am trying to avoid is storing a list of columns somehere. Is there somet

Re: [GENERAL] Marking a Column for Special Use

2011-07-12 Thread David Johnston
Can you make use of "COMMENT ON ."? From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Terry Lee Tucker Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 11:25 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] Marking a Column for Special Use Greeti

Re: [GENERAL] Marking a Column for Special Use

2011-07-12 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:25:24AM -0400, Terry Lee Tucker wrote: > Greetings: > > I have a scenario in which it would be quite convenient to mark about 20 > existing columns in a table such that I can select those fields > programatically, based on my flag, for some specialized processing. What

Re: [GENERAL] Marking a Column for Special Use

2011-07-12 Thread Terry Lee Tucker
On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 11:47:33 AM Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:25:24AM -0400, Terry Lee Tucker wrote: > > Greetings: > > > > I have a scenario in which it would be quite convenient to mark about 20 > > existing columns in a table such that I can select those fields > > p

Re: [GENERAL] Marking a Column for Special Use

2011-07-12 Thread Terry Lee Tucker
11 11:25 AM > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: [GENERAL] Marking a Column for Special Use > > > > Greetings: > > > > I have a scenario in which it would be quite convenient to mark about 20 > existing columns in a table such that I can select those fields >