less expensive way to fetch column names?

From: NetComrade <andreyNSPAM_at_bookexchange.net>
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 22:04:40 GMT
Message-ID: <406de334.1231442431@localhost>

is there are a less expensive way to get column names from a table then doing

               SELECT LOWER(column_name)
	       FROM user_tab_columns 
	       WHERE table_name ='my_table'
	       ORDER BY column_id

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