Re: column ordering, was Re: [PATCHES] Enums patch v2

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Kenneth Marshall <ktm(at)it(dot)is(dot)rice(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: column ordering, was Re: [PATCHES] Enums patch v2
Date: 2006-12-20 13:59:21
Message-ID: 200612201459.24704.peter_e@gmx.net
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Am Mittwoch, 20. Dezember 2006 14:20 schrieb Kenneth Marshall:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 01:26:59PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 20. Dezember 2006 04:44 schrieb Tom Lane:
> > > If you can show me a reasonably bulletproof or machine-checkable way to
> > > keep the two kinds of column numbers distinct, I'd be all for it.
> >
> > The only way I can see is to make the domains of the numbers distinct.
>
> Negative vs. positive numbers?

That would be an obvious choice, but negative column numbers are already in
use for system columns.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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