Re: Toward a column reorder solution

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Nilson Damasceno <nilson(dot)brazil(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Toward a column reorder solution
Date: 2010-07-27 23:07:48
Message-ID: 4C4F66C4.8010703@dunslane.net
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Nilson Damasceno wrote:
>
> The Tom's message was in Dec/2006. We are in 2010.

So what? The problem hasn't changed.

>
> Sincerelly, I'm not afraid to seem naive, but I believe that a column
> that inherits the persistent semantics of attnum solves the 99.9%
> problem with column reordering of legacy software.

You're assuming that the only thing we want to be able to do related to
column position is to reorder columns logically. That assumption is not
correct.

(Incidentally, please don't top-answer).

cheers

andrew

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