Re: Changing Column Order (Was Re: MySQL vs PostgreSQL.) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: Changing Column Order (Was Re: MySQL vs PostgreSQL.)
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Msg-id 20021012154513.GA12337@wolff.to
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In response to Re: Changing Column Order (Was Re: MySQL vs PostgreSQL.)  (Antti Haapala <antti.haapala@iki.fi>)
Responses \copy needs work (was Re: Changing Column Order)
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On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 12:43:37 +0300, Antti Haapala <antti.haapala@iki.fi> wrote:
> 
> > 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...

The SQL COPY command does (at least in 7.3). The \copy psql command
doesn't seem to allow this though.


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