How select remaining unspecified columns - mysql

Question

I am looking to overwrite a column name in a table with an existing column name.
I am Looking for a way to get the remaining unspecified columns in the tables.
Note:
The query could have more joins in the future.
eg
Person
+-----------+----------+---------+
| firstname | lastname | pers_id |
+-----------+----------+---------+
| Joe | Soap | 1 |
| Bobby | Pin | 2 |
| Janet | Jackson | 3 |
+-----------+----------+---------+
Category
+----------+-------------------+--------+
| type | description | cat_id |
+----------+-------------------+--------+
| customer | people who pay us | 1 |
| employee | people we pay | 2 |
| director | people who direct | 3 |
+----------+-------------------+--------+
Person_Cat
(=^ェ^=)
+---------+--------+
| pers_id | cat_id |
+---------+--------+
| 3 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 |
| 1 | 3 |
+---------+--------+
Query
SELECT *, CONCAT(p.firstname, ' '
, p.lastname) as full_name
, c.cat_id AS category_id
, p.pers_id AS cat_id
FROM Person AS p
JOIN Person_Cat AS pc ON(p.pers_id = pc.pers_id)
JOIN Category AS c ON (pc.cat_id = c.cat_id)
OUTPUT
(Apologies for the length but the table after is more important)
+-----------+----------+---------+---------+--------+----------+-------------------+--------+---------------+-------------+--------+
| p | p | p | pc | pc | c | c | c | Select | Select | Select |
+-----------+----------+---------+---------+--------+----------+-------------------+--------+---------------+-------------+--------+
| firstname | lastname | pers_id | pers_id | cat_id | type | description | cat_id | full_name | category_id | cat_id |
+-----------+----------+---------+---------+--------+----------+-------------------+--------+---------------+-------------+--------+
| Janet | Jackson | 3 | 3 | 1 | customer | people who pay us | 1 | Janet jackson | 1 | 3 |
| Bobby | Pin | 2 | 2 | 2 | employee | people who we pay | 2 | Bobby Pin | 2 | 2 |
| Joe | Soap | 1 | 1 | 3 | director | people who direct | 3 | Joe Soap | 3 | 1 |
+-----------+----------+---------+---------+--------+----------+-------------------+--------+---------------+-------------+--------+
The headers above column names are there for reference
to where they comes from.
Column summary -
firstname, lastname, pers_id, pers_id, cat_id, type,
description, cat_id, full_name ,category_id, cat_id
Wanted output
+-----------+----------+---------+--------+----------+-------------------+---------------+-------------+--------+
| p | p | pc | pc | c | c | Select | Select | Select |
+-----------+----------+---------+--------+----------+-------------------+---------------+-------------+--------+
| firstname | lastname | pers_id | cat_id | type | description | full_name | category_id | cat_id |
+-----------+----------+---------+--------+----------+-------------------+---------------+-------------+--------+
| Janet | Jackson | 3 | 1 | customer | people who pay us | Janet jackson | 1 | 3 |
| Bobby | Pin | 2 | 2 | employee | people who we pay | Bobby Pin | 2 | 2 |
| Joe | Soap | 1 | 3 | director | people who direct | Joe Soap | 3 | 1 |
+-----------+----------+---------+--------+----------+-------------------+---------------+-------------+--------+
Column summary -
firstname, lastname, pers_id, cat_id, type,
description, full_name ,category_id, cat_id
Notice:
The p.pers_id and the c.cat_id are not present. I would like to think this would be because the were called directly and unmodified unlike the first and lastname used in ConCat

Answer 1

When the short answer is that there is no such concept as Select [remaining columns]at this time (2015-06-17), if you want to use SELECT * but only remove redundant columns,
then you will need to explicitly remove (ignore) those redundant columns when rendering your view.
You will have to explicitly configure logic of which columns to ignore, which is pretty much the same thing as explicitly listing the columns that you are interested in, so you get back to the argument against selecting all columns that I made in the comments above.
Unless your table schema is changing all the time, there really isn't reason for this.