Michael Glaesemann wrote:
>
> 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.
All we agree on this, the only reason this feature is needed is to continue
to have a well table structure, see my last post.
Regards
Gaetano Mendola
