From: | Patrick Rutkowski <rutski89(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Alter column position |
Date: | 2010-05-22 15:01:51 |
Message-ID: | 332F9E6C-6B9D-4551-B53B-01023F96C465@gmail.com |
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Hmm, interesting.
Though I do see how the performance bumps could be useful, I would still bet that the huge majority of users who utters the words "damn, I wish I could re-order columns" are just talking about the visual order in psql(1) or PgAdminIII.
On May 22, 2010, at 10:49 AM, David Fetter wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 09:34:50AM -0400, Patrick Rutkowski wrote:
>> I'm curious, is there any latest word on this?
>>
>> (Note that I've read fully the link
>> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Alter_column_position as well as all
>> links stemming from it).
>
> No one's working on it, to my knowledge. While the "SELECT *" case
> doesn't interest me too much, it would be part of the infrastructure
> needed for PostgreSQL to optimize storage by placing all fixed-length
> columns before any variable-length ones.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
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