Thread: Alter table

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Guillaume Houssay wrote:

> I am looking for the SQL query to add a column in a table and having
> the column at specific position in the table (not at the end of the
> table).
>
> Do you have any idea ?

I think that's a TODO item (i.e. it's not implemented yet.)

Currently you'd have to either pg_dump and rearrange your data, or
recreate the table with a select into / insert from select type thing.

select field1, field2, field4, ''::text as newfield, field3 into newtable
from oldtable;

On Wednesday 30 July 2003 17:21, Guillaume Houssay wrote:
> I am looking for the SQL query to add a column in a table and having the
> column at specific position in the table (not at the end of the table).

Sorry - you'll need to dump and restore the table. PG only adds columns at the
end.

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd