>>let's express it another way: we want to define the order of the columns
>>when they are shown in tools like phpPgAdmin or PgAdminII.
>
> That is something that those tools should do then. It isn't really a
> postgres issue as it already provides ways for the tools to get
> information about columns of a table.
The problem is, that the information should be stored somewhere in the
database.
If each tool does maintain its own column-order storage, that we'll have
a chaos.
