RE: Reordering the fields in a table

MS SQL Server allows this too. I do it all the time.

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Kellerer <shammat(at)gmx(dot)net>
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2021 1:09 AM
To: pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Reordering the fields in a table

Wells Oliver schrieb am 17.04.2021 um 00:28:
> If it helps the cause, I would love this too, in addition to having
> the ability to ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN with the ability to specify
> where in the column order. This ends up being a bigger frustration for
> a lot of people than it should be, and maybe it's a touch of OCD, but
> most RDBMS packages allow this

"Most" seems a bit of a stretch.
To my knowledge it's only supported in MySQL, Firebird and Informix.

You can't do this in Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Teradata, Ingres, Vertica or SAP Hana.