> This is expected. Doing otherwise would incur into a much bigger
> performance hit.
>
> Anyway, IMHO no code should use SELECT * in any case, which is the only
> scenario where one would expect physical column order to matter, isn't
> it?
Well, we can always bring back the old idea of a attlognum which is the
logical order of the columns. Then we use that to expand *
Chris
