From: | Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> |
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To: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Changing Column Order (Was Re: MySQL vs PostgreSQL.) |
Date: | 2002-10-12 08:37:08 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.21.0210121833480.26079-100000@linuxworld.com.au |
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On 12 Oct 2002, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera kirjutas L, 12.10.2002 kell 04:16:
> > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 07:08:18PM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
> >
> > > And it really is a minor matter of convenience. I end up dropping and
> > > recreating all my tables a lot in the early stages of development, which is
> > > mildly annoying. Certainly not as bad, I suppose, as if you're led to believe
> > > that a feature does something safely, and it kills all your data.
> >
> > Now that ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN is implemented, there probably isn't
> > any more the need to do such frequent drop/create of tables.
>
> Did attlognum's (for changing column order) get implemented for 7.2 ?
I cannot think of any reason why changing column order should be
implemented in Postgres. Seems like a waste of time/more code bloat for
something which is strictly asthetic.
Regardless, I do have collegues/clients who ask when such a feature will
be implemented. Why is this useful?
Gavin
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