Re: pg_dump of regression db?

At 22:43 13/09/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Am I correct that someone was working on allowing a column order to be
>> specified in COPY commands? If so, this would fix the problem, I think.
>
>No, that is a kluge that would allow pg_dump to work around ALTER
>TABLE's fundamental inadequacy. It's not a fix unless you think it's OK
>to expect every application forevermore to take special care with column
>orders.
>

I suppose from an application programming point of view, I am used to
having to specify column order in my 'select' statements (ie. I don't tend
to let 'select * from...' into production code, and usually consider it bad
form to do so), so I thought the issue was confined to COPY & pg_dump. And
in the case of pg_dump, I would just explicitly set the column order when
they are dumped/restored.

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