| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com |
| Cc: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: logical column position |
| Date: | 2003-11-18 14:43:13 |
| Message-ID: | 200311181443.hAIEhDP01665@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Dave Cramer wrote:
> Will adding the logical attribute number break all of the external
> tools? pg_dump, etc are all dependent on attnum now?
>
> Would it be possible to keep the meaning of attnum the same externally
> and add another column internally to represent the physical number?
Interesting idea. It would require a lot of code renaming in the
backend, but it could be done.
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