Re: PostgreSQL Top 10 Wishlist

From: Joost Kraaijeveld <J(dot)Kraaijeveld(at)Askesis(dot)nl>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Top 10 Wishlist
Date: 2006-01-18 07:10:07
Message-ID: 1137568207.24306.10.camel@Panoramix.Askesis.nl
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On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 09:52 -0800, David Fetter wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:28:03AM -0600, Tony Caduto wrote:
> > As long as we are talking wish lists...
> >
> > What I would like to see is some way to change the ordering of the
> > fields without having to drop and recreate the table.
>
> Why are you asking us to optimize the 'SELECT *' case which almost
> never belongs in production code in the 1st place?
Because a lot of tools that I use to manage a database during
*development* (e.g. PgAdmin) show the columns in an other order than the
order of attributes in my Java/C++ code. The "logical" order of the
columns/attributes can change during development.

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Joost Kraaijeveld
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