Re: [HACKERS] Adding columns in the middle of tables

2004-09-06 Thread Jaime Casanova
--- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > We looked at this and decided that it would be > vastly more trouble than > it's worth --- not only in terms of effort to > implement the feature > originally, but in ongoing maintenance and risk of > bug creation. > > For instance, the original propo

Re: [HACKERS] Adding columns in the middle of tables

2004-09-05 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: I want to clarify this. The point of the core is they won't do it because they have things more important to do, or, the feature will never be part of the postgresql even if someone else contribute it. Maybe i am not capable of contribute it but i will try if the feat

Re: [HACKERS] Adding columns in the middle of tables

2004-09-04 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
> Given the 8.0 ALTER TABLE feature of being able to rewrite the whole > table, one could now think about doing it without decoupling logical > and physical numbers: just rewrite the table with the new column > inserted in the proper place. This moves the problem to a different > area, which is be

Re: [HACKERS] Adding columns in the middle of tables

2004-09-04 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
> I want to clarify this. > The point of the core is they won't do it because > they have things more important to do, or, the feature > will never be part of the postgresql even if someone > else contribute it. > > Maybe i am not capable of contribute it but i will > try if the feature will be bec

Re: [HACKERS] Adding columns in the middle of tables

2004-09-04 Thread Tom Lane
=?iso-8859-1?q?Jaime=20Casanova?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The point of the core is they won't do it because > they have things more important to do, or, the feature > will never be part of the postgresql even if someone > else contribute it. We looked at this and decided that it would be vas

[HACKERS] Adding columns in the middle of tables

2004-09-04 Thread Jaime Casanova
--- Gaetano Mendola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Jaime Casanova wrote: > > > Hi guys i was looking for the > > http://developer.postgresql.org/todo.php in order > >to view what things are you posponing for later > > versions > > but the entire developer.postgresql.org site is > > down. > > > >