| From: | Alessio Bragadini <alessio(at)albourne(dot)com> |
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| To: | PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Changing Column Order (Was Re: MySQL vs PostgreSQL.) |
| Date: | 2002-10-14 13:39:37 |
| Message-ID: | 1034602777.6205.203.camel@iris |
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On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 11:37, Gavin Sherry wrote:
> I cannot think of any reason why changing column order should be
> implemented in Postgres. Seems like a waste of time/more code bloat for
> something which is strictly asthetic.
>
> Regardless, I do have collegues/clients who ask when such a feature will
> be implemented. Why is this useful?
Has column ordering any effect on the physical tuple disposition? I've
heard discussions about keeping fixed-size fields at the beginning of
the tuple and similar.
Sorry for the lame question. :-)
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