On Jan 19, 2006, at 9:10 , Jim C. Nasby wrote:
It would definately be nice if the end-user concept of column order
wasn't tied to the physical order in the database.
Tom Lane has mentioned at least a couple of times that decoupling the
(SQL-required) logical order from the physical order is probably
pretty hairy and would lead to easy to make and hard to track down
bugs and I don't doubt that it's pretty detailed and complicated
work. If someone were so inclined, they could probably look into this
more closely and see what it would take to create a clean, easy-to-
use and easy-to-maintain interface between the physical and logical
data representation (including column order).
Michael Glaesemann
grzm myrealbox com
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