Re: full featured alter table? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: full featured alter table?
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Msg-id 23492.1055697919@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: full featured alter table?  (Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com>)
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Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com> writes:
> The proposal does beg the question:
> Why would a default tuple-attribute order be stored in the database
> but not relation-tuple order?

A good argument in terms of pure relational-calculus theory ... but
we're dealing with SQL here, not relational calculus.  The SQL spec
explicitly states that column ordering is significant while row ordering
is not.

            regards, tom lane

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