| From: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Reordering the fields in a table |
| Date: | 2021-04-17 15:21:34 |
| Message-ID: | CAKFQuwZ+fnqh=jYYo6BkvVzrf66p4FCKokJh0eXi7yHQTnKV=Q@mail.gmail.com |
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On Friday, April 16, 2021, Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>>
>
> Adding "ALTER TABLE MOVE COLUMN ... BEFORE/AFTER COLUMN ..." is pretty
> trivial, requiring "just another table", which stores the physical order of
> the columns, and also the order in which they are presented to the "user
> layer". I know this because such a feature was implemented 15+ years ago
> in Rdb/VMS.
>
>
The feature has been discussed before on these lists and the only thing
preventing its inclusion is some developers either donating their time to
see it finished or some interested non-developers paying some developers to
write it on their behalf.
David J.
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