On Sep 4, 2004, at 10:07 PM, Christopher Browne wrote:
> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when systemguards@yahoo.com (Jaime
> Casanova) would write:
>> By the way, will be a way in postgresql 8 to add a
>> column in a middle of a table. just curious.
>
> What do you mean by "in a middle of a table?" A relation is simply a
> set of attributes that _don't_ forcibly have an order, because sets
> are unordered.
In the SQL spec, columns are ordered, iirc, as sad as that is. Writing
application code that depends on column order is asking for pain and
suffering.
Michael Glaesemann
grzm myrealbox com