Which is what started the whole discussion.
Dave
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 04:40, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Hannu Krosing wrote:
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> >
> >attnum is used internally to retrieve the data
> >
> >
> >
> Oops...
>
> So if an additional column number is invented, it should not be a
> logical column number, but a physical storage number for internal data
> retrieval. This way, the "user interface" doesn't change, and all those
> "SELECT ... FROM pg_attribute ORDER BY attnum" continue delivering the
> expected result.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
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>