| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Jaime Casanova" <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec> |
| Cc: | "Ferdinand Gassauer" <gassauer(at)kde(dot)org>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #4547: sort columns in \d |
| Date: | 2008-11-23 19:11:44 |
| Message-ID: | 26502.1227467504@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Jaime Casanova" <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec> writes:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> this patch fixes this and makes the output of \d much more usable.
>>
>> Calling this a "bug" isn't a good way to start a discussion about it.
> specially because this *fix* will lead to confusions about the order
> of columns in INSERT statements,
And "SELECT *" statements. I don't necessarily object to having some
way to list the columns alphabetically, but it shouldn't be the only
way, and probably not even the default.
regards, tom lane
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