From: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Mike Christensen <mike(at)kitchenpc(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "McGehee, Robert" <Robert(dot)McGehee(at)geodecapital(dot)com>, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>, Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Smaller data types use same disk space |
Date: | 2012-07-25 22:49:25 |
Message-ID: | CAHyXU0ysaCshHh2WxvcMLooSxnMB96WyxUp03=Yw5B_hQNeGdA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Mike Christensen <mike(at)kitchenpc(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> "McGehee, Robert" <Robert(dot)McGehee(at)geodecapital(dot)com> writes:
>>> One might even imagine a future version of PostgreSQL using an
>>> efficient disk layout that may not match the table layout in order to
>>> avoid wasted space from padding.
>>
>> Yeah, this has been discussed multiple times. The sticking point is
>> the extra infrastructure needed to have a physical column numbering
>> different from the user-visible numbering, and the 100% certainty of
>> introducing a lot of bugs due to bits of code using one type of column
>> number where they should have used the other. We'll probably get it
>> done someday, but don't hold your breath ...
>
> Has there been any discussion of providing the ability to re-order
> table columns through an ALTER TABLE command? I would love to see
> this; when I add in a new column, I often want to put it next to
> something just to be more visually appealing when I'm running ad-hoc
> queries. It could potentially address this problem as well.
see: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Alter_column_position
as well as extensive discussion in the archives.
merlin
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