Re: Appetite for `SELECT ... EXCLUDE`?

Thanks for the pointers, Tom. Sorry my search didn't turn those up.

On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 3:18 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Nikhil Benesch <nikhil.benesch@gmail.com> writes:
> > Both DuckDB and Snowflake, as of recently, support a nonstandard `EXCLUDE`
> > clause in the SELECT list to allow excluding fields from a wildcard [0] [1].
>
> > Example from the DuckDB announcement [2]:
>
> >    SELECT * EXCLUDE (jar_jar_binks, midichlorians) FROM star_wars
>
> > Is there any appetite for adding this feature to PostgreSQL?
>
> This has been discussed before and not gone anywhere, e.g. [1] [2].
> I think there have been more threads but that was all I found in a
> quick archive search.  Anyway, as those threads illustrate, there is a
> lot of room for variation in how you spell it, where you can write it,
> and so on.  My own inclination is to not do anything here until/unless
> the SQL committee standardizes something, because there's too much
> risk of finding ourselves incompatible with the standard.
>
>                         regards, tom lane
>
> [1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/d51371a2-f221-1cf3-4a7d-b2242d4dafdb%40gmail.com
> [2]
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CANcm6wbR3EG7t-G%3DTxy64Yt8nR6YbpzFRuTewJQ%2BkCq%3DrZ8M2A%40mail.gmail.com