Re: column ordering, was Re: [PATCHES] Enums patch v2

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: column ordering, was Re: [PATCHES] Enums patch v2
Date: 2006-12-21 15:50:59
Message-ID: 19759.1166716259@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> The thing is, physical index numbers has meaning, the logical index
> number does not. In a view definition we're going to store the physical
> index, not the logical one, for example.

Really? To me that's one of a large number of questions that are
unresolved about how we'd do this. You can make a case for either
choice in quite a number of places.

regards, tom lane

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