Re: Toward a column reorder solution - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Toward a column reorder solution
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Msg-id 4C4F66C4.8010703@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Toward a column reorder solution  (Nilson Damasceno <nilson.brazil@gmail.com>)
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Nilson Damasceno wrote:
>
> The Tom's message was in Dec/2006. We are in 2010.

So what? The problem hasn't changed.

>
> Sincerelly, I'm not afraid to seem naive, but I believe that a column 
> that inherits the persistent semantics of attnum solves the 99.9% 
> problem with column reordering of legacy software.


You're assuming that the only thing we want to be able to do related to 
column position is to reorder columns logically. That assumption is not 
correct.

(Incidentally, please don't top-answer).

cheers

andrew



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