Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD wrote:
> And I also see a lot of unhappiness from users of system tables
> when column numbers all over the system tables would not be logical
> column
> positions any more.
>
>
Are you arguing against the feature? Or against the suggested design?
I should have thought (without much looking) one possible way to
implement it would be to put Oids on pg_attribute for the permanent id,
and keep attnum for the (now mutable) logical order, adding a further
column for the physical order.
cheers
andrew