Tony Caduto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> It would definately be nice if the end-user concept of column order
>> wasn't tied to the physical order in the database.

> Ok this may be over simplistic, but we have a attnum for the physical 
> order, why not just add a attorder and then we could just change that 
> numbering and order by that field instead of attnum?

Please go back and read the very extensive discussions of this question
a couple years ago in the pghackers archives (around the time we were
implementing DROP COLUMN, iirc).  There is no "just" about it.

                        regards, tom lane

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