Re: logical column ordering - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 27.2.2015 19:23, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tomas Vondra wrote:
> 
>> Physical ordering is still determined by the CREATE TABLE command,
> 
> In theory, you should be able to UPDATE attphysnum in pg_attribute
> too when the table is empty, and new tuples inserted would follow
> the specified ordering.

Good idea - that'd give you descriptors with
   (attnum != attphysnum)

which might trigger some bugs.

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