This is expected. Doing otherwise would incur into a much bigger performance hit.
Anyway, IMHO no code should use SELECT * in any case, which is the only scenario where one would expect physical column order to matter, isn't it?
Well, we can always bring back the old idea of a attlognum which is the logical order of the columns. Then we use that to expand *
Chris
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