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 16:15:38
Message-ID: 20099.1166717738@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 10:50:59AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> 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.

> Can we? For anything of any permenence (view definitions, rules,
> compiled functions, plans, etc) you're going to want the physical
> number, for the same reason we store the oids of functions and tables.

Not if we intend to rearrange the physical numbers during column
add/drop to provide better packing.

You could make a case that we need *three* numbers: a permanent column
ID, a display position, and a storage position.

regards, tom lane

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