title: does the existence of an asterisk in a select exclude other columns?
body: <p>This question is all about laziness... I'd like to do something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>select some_func(some_col), * from my_table
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So that I don't have to do this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>select some_func(some_col), col_1, col_2... col_ad_infinitum from my_table
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there any way to make the first query work?  This is the error I get when I run it:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 1: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '* from my_table' at line 1
  </code></pre>