Re: Marking a Column for Special Use

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 I am
> trying to avoid is storing a list of columns somehere. Is there something like
> a "user area" in the underlying tables that define a column that could be
> safely utilized for this purpose?

Sounds like you want a view, I think.

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