Github user fhueske commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1465#issuecomment-170934568
Yes, I think so.
ATM, the Table API does not allow to access nested fields but only Row
fields as a whole. So there is no way to define different order for nested
types. I think we'll keep it like this for now. If we change it at some point,
we have to touch the code again.
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