| From: | "John Hansen" <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | "Llewellyn Falco" <isidore(at)setgame(dot)com>, <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: request |
| Date: | 2005-05-07 04:27:55 |
| Message-ID: | 5066E5A966339E42AA04BA10BA706AE50A92F7@rodrick.geeknet.com.au |
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>
> It is really hard to currently alter table schema.
>
> Particularly the order of the table schema.
>
> to move a column position is very hard. worse if your table as
references (and which proper
> tables don't ?)
Doesn't that in itself promote bad programming?
Relying on the order of columns is a bad thing(tm), imo.
> I would really like postgres to model the alter syntax of mysql,
which is really easy to modify
> table schema especially to include the AFTER col_name part.
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/alter-table.html
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Llewellyn.
>
>
... John
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