Re: Reordering columns, will this ever be simple?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Reordering columns, will this ever be simple?
Date: 2007-08-09 18:33:07
Message-ID: 46BB5DE3.7080500@commandprompt.com
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Erik Jones wrote:
>
> On Aug 9, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Greg Smith wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Erik Jones wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps we could have a nice, friendly discussion on using surrogate
>>> primary keys v. string based keys? Or, I think the body of the
>>> "nulls are bad" dead horse is collecting flies if anyone wants to
>>> take a swing at it...
>>
>> Following the handbook for dead horse riding[1], obviously technique
>> #12 "Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed"
>> would allow faster progress were all these addressed at once.
>>
>> [1] http://soli.inav.net/~catalyst/Humor/dhorse.htm
>>
>
> That's awesome.

And very sad at the same time.

Joshua D. Drkae

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