Re: Reordering the fields in a table

Right on, Laurenz!

Laurenz Albe wrote on 4/16/2021 3:54 PM:
> On Fri, 2021-04-16 at 16:15 +0000, Campbell, Lance wrote:
>> I would love to see an enhancement to PostgreSQL where administrators had some way to reorder the fields in their tables.
>>
>> Why is this a big deal?
>> The one issue that causes me the most grief is the readability of tables. When you manage 17 services
>> where you are continually tweaking the system you find the tables are very unreadable.
>> New fields are continually added to the bottom of tables. They are just not readable.
> There is a misconception here.
> Database tables are not designed for human consumption.
> If you want to present your table data in a readable format, you need a front end application.
> Arranging table columns is the job of such a tool.
>
> If you want to do it in the database, use a view.
> Simple views that just reorder the columns are updatable, so you could just
> use those instead of the underlying tables in your statements.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe