Re: ALTER Table

From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)myrealbox(dot)com>
Subject: Re: ALTER Table
Date: 2003-10-31 12:23:09
Message-ID: 3FA2542D.6070009@bigfoot.com
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Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

> Alex wrote:
>
>> is it possible to add a column to a table at a specific place ?
>> Reading the man pages i could not figure that out.
>
>
> Why do you want to add it at specific location? What does it achieve?

I miss the same feature too, this is my reason:
is just to keep clean your schema, I have in my revision control system
all tables with fields grouped for tipology:

CREATE TABLE a(

G1 as INTEGER,
...
Gn as INTEGER,
H1 as INTEGER,
...
Hm as INTEGER
);

when I add let me say Gn+1 in my RCS I have:

CREATE TABLE a(

G1 as INTEGER,
...
Gn as INTEGER,
Gn+1 as INTEGER,
H1 as INTEGER,
...
Hm as INTEGER
);

and will be nice to have in my fourther dumps
the same structure, just to do a DIFF betwen two schemas
without become crazy!

I hope I was clear enough.

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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