Re: full featured alter table?

From: merlyn(at)stonehenge(dot)com (Randal L(dot) Schwartz)
To: jim(at)nasby(dot)net
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: full featured alter table?
Date: 2003-06-14 17:26:45
Message-ID: 86y90436zu.fsf@red.stonehenge.com
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>>>>> "Jim" == Jim C Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net> writes:

Jim> The one thing we don't have that I think would be useful is a way to
Jim> re-order the columns in a table. Maybe it's just me, but I tend to want
Jim> column to appear in a specific order, and the only way you can
Jim> accomplish this today is by re-creating the entire table.

Column order shouldn't matter. It matters only when you say "SELECT *",
and the best literature out there warns against the foibles of such.

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