[development] Is "SELECT * FROM ..." ok?

[Morbus Iff]

> I would really like to hear David Strauss's comments on this thread.
> David, if you are out there, care to chime in?

There could be only one reason to chime his name, and that would be for 
his inner knowledge of MySQL and the effects this may have on perf. 
While I'm sure I'll learn something on a tangential curve, it'd have 
little effect on why /I/ consider them not OK.

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