On Tuesday 19 December 2006 11:25, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:48:41AM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > Sure, but the only sane way I can think of to do that would be have > > separate logical and physical orderings, with a map between the two. I > > guess we'd need to see what the potential space savings would be and > > establish what the processing overhead would be, before considering it. > > One side advantage would be that it would allow us to do the often > > requested "add column at position x". > > A patch to allow seperate physical and logical orderings was submitted > and rejected. Unless something has changed on that front, any > discussion in this direction isn't really useful. >
The patch was rejected on technical means, and the author decided it was too much work to finish it. If someone wanted to try and complete that work I don't think anyone would stand against it. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq