Re: REPACK and naming

From: Marcos Pegoraro <marcos(at)f10(dot)com(dot)br>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: REPACK and naming
Date: 2025-09-17 12:04:19
Message-ID: CAB-JLwaRXQPZ7Sj42-66dXtvkrx=5rxW7w=vszppekUxspDiAw@mail.gmail.com
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Em ter., 16 de set. de 2025 às 23:01, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
escreveu:

> I think RETABLE is not a proposal to be taken seriously. That's
> extremely confusing.
>

This feature could be used in a future version to rearrange fields in a
table, for better padding.
I don't think we have another one available for this purpose.

CREATE TABLE T(A text, B integer, C bigint, D integer);

We could have something like
RETABLE T USING(B, D, C, A)

So REPACK isn't the best for this, if this feature would exist some day.

regards
Marcos

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