Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Simon Riggs wrote: > > > > I propose that at CREATE TABLE time, the column ordering is re-ordered > > so that the table columns are packed more efficiently. This would be a > > physical re-ordering, so that SELECT * and COPY without explicit column > > definitions would differ from the original CREATE TABLE statement. > > > > This would be an optional feature, off by default, controlled by a > > USERSET GUC > > optimize_column_order = off (default) | on > > Umm, you want a GUC setting to enable standards-breaking behaviour and > that will be obsolete when we do column ordering right, which is not > likely to be more than one release away, and could even still happen in > this coming release?
Given that we already seem to have a patch implementing a complete solution, or part thereof, this would seem a rather shortsighted proposal. Why not develop the whole thing and be done with it? I don't understand the reluctance to implementing all of it. The most serious objection I've seen, from Andreas IIRC, is that it would make drivers' lives more difficult; but really, drivers have to cope with dropped columns today which is a pain, and ISTM this proposal (not this one here, but the three-column proposal) would make that a bit simpler. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
