> > And I also see a lot of unhappiness from users of system tables when
> > column numbers all over the system tables would not be logical
column
> > positions any more.
>
> Right now the fact that attnum presents the logical order but
> not the logical position is a problem for the JDBC driver.
> In the presence of dropped columns there is no easy way to
> get from a pg_attribute entry to logical position. I would
> hope that a new logical position column would reflect the
> actual position and solve this problem.
I agree, I haven't thought of drop column :-( Drop column should have
relabeled attnum.
Since it was not done then, my comments are probably moot.
Andreas
