Re: full featured alter table?

Really?

What if two PgAdmin sessions want two different order?
Presentation order should be done at the application level.

JLL

Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> writes:
> > Sven Köhler <skoehler(at)upb(dot)de> wrote:
> >> let's express it another way: we want to define the order of the columns
> >> when they are shown in tools like phpPgAdmin or PgAdminII.
>
> > That is something that those tools should do then. It isn't really a
> > postgres issue as it already provides ways for the tools to get
> > information about columns of a table.
>
> Perhaps, but pg_attribute is the natural place to keep the column
> ordering info.
>
> ISTM we talked months ago about adding an "attlognum" column to
> pg_attribute, which would be separate from "attnum" (the physical column
> position) and would be used by the backend only to determine the order
> of SELECT * expansion. Admin tools could use this to determine column
> display order too. It didn't get done, but it still seems like a
> reasonable idea to me.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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