Re: Changing Column Order (Was Re: MySQL vs PostgreSQL.)

From: Antti Haapala <antti(dot)haapala(at)iki(dot)fi>
To: Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Changing Column Order (Was Re: MySQL vs PostgreSQL.)
Date: 2002-10-12 09:43:37
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.44.0210121234220.23107-100000@paju.oulu.fi
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> I cannot think of any reason why changing column order should be
> implemented in Postgres. Seems like a waste of time/more code bloat for
> something which is strictly asthetic.

What about copy? AFAIK, copy doesn't allow column names being specified,
so it's not purely aesthetic...

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