| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: logical column ordering |
| Date: | 2015-03-01 15:09:22 |
| Message-ID: | 20150301150922.GT2384@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Jim Nasby wrote:
> On 2/27/15 2:37 PM, Gavin Flower wrote:
> >Might be an idea to allow lists of columns and their starting position.
> >
> >ALTER TABLE customer ALTER COLUMN (job_id, type_id, account_num) SET
> >ORDER 3;
>
> I would certainly want something along those lines because it would be *way*
> less verbose (and presumably a lot faster) than a slew of ALTER TABLE
> statements.
You know you can issue multiple subcommands in one ALTER TABLE
statement, right? There's no reason to do more than one table rewrite.
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