Re: Adding columns in the middle (Was: Developers page is down)

From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)myrealbox(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Adding columns in the middle (Was: Developers page is down)
Date: 2004-09-11 18:30:51
Message-ID: 4143445B.5020705@bigfoot.com
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Michael Glaesemann wrote:

>
> On Sep 4, 2004, at 10:07 PM, Christopher Browne wrote:
>
>> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when systemguards(at)yahoo(dot)com (Jaime
>> Casanova) would write:
>>
>>> By the way, will be a way in postgresql 8 to add a
>>> column in a middle of a table. just curious.
>>
>>
>> What do you mean by "in a middle of a table?" A relation is simply a
>> set of attributes that _don't_ forcibly have an order, because sets
>> are unordered.
>
>
> In the SQL spec, columns are ordered, iirc, as sad as that is. Writing
> application code that depends on column order is asking for pain and
> suffering.

All we agree on this, the only reason this feature is needed is to continue
to have a well table structure, see my last post.

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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