Re: ALTER COLUMN/logical column position - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dave Cramer
Subject Re: ALTER COLUMN/logical column position
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Msg-id 1069333496.1783.39.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: ALTER COLUMN/logical column position  (Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>)
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Which is what started the whole discussion.

Dave
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 04:40, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Hannu Krosing wrote:
> 
> >
> >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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