Thread: reorder columns?

reorder columns?

From
"Andy Kriger"
Date:
is there a way to reorder columns in psql?
or to alter table and add columns after a specified columns?

if not, is my only option to recreate the table with columns in the desired
order and select into that table?

thx
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Re: reorder columns?

From
"scott.marlowe"
Date:
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Andy Kriger wrote:

> is there a way to reorder columns in psql?
> or to alter table and add columns after a specified columns?
>
> if not, is my only option to recreate the table with columns in the desired
> order and select into that table?

Pretty much, but you can do it all at once with a statement like:

select field2, field5, field4, field1, field3 into newtable from oldtable