>>there should be some statement which is used by the tools to query the
>>list of columns in the table - the resultset contains the columns in a
>>defined order which is - in most cases - the order in which the columns
>>were created. we'd like to be abled influence the order of the columns
>>within that resultset.
>
> this does _NOT_ belong into the postmaster. you're free to define
> your own tables for storing this (which are not shown to the user
> in your frontend). pgaccess goes this way.
what are you talking about? it is not _my_ frontend!
we're talking "frontends" about pgAdmin, phpPgAdmin etc.
we are talking about the order of the columns that postgresql shows to
it's clients - and yes: this data belongs somewhere into the sys-tables
of postgre.