On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 02:28:20PM -0500, Tony Caduto wrote: > Gregory Stark wrote: > >"novnov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>Is there any plan to add such a capability to postgres? > >> > > > >It's been talked about. I wouldn't be surprised to see it in 8.4 but > >nobody's > >said they'll be doing it yet and there are a lot of other more exciting > >ideas > >too. > > > > > From a admin tool developers perspective the ability to reorder columns > without manually copying to a new table and all that is pretty exiting :-)
Patches welcome. :) BTW, this is much more likely to happen if we divorce presentation order from actual storage order, something that there is some desire to do because it would allow the engine to automagically store things in the optimal ordering from an alignment standpoint. -- Decibel!, aka Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
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