Re: Patch by request at pgcon

Excerpts from Stephen Frost's message of jue may 19 13:49:33 -0400 2011:
> * Alvaro Herrera (alvherre@commandprompt.com) wrote:
> > Excerpts from Greg Stark's message of jue may 19 12:11:29 -0400 2011:
> > > Adding such a feature would be pretty trivial, attached is a patch.
> > 
> > Interesting, but not so trivial I think -- I mean if you're doing this I
> > think you should add a column with the nominal position of the column in
> > the table, so that it enables you to find it quickly in the other sort
> > order.
> 
> Afraid that I have to disagree..  The attnum (or, really, worse, since
> you'd have to actually count/number the non-dropped columns only..)
> doesn't strike me as being useful to the user for much of anything,
> especially since we don't have the number anywhere in the default
> listing.

Well, counting is not that hard (I mean if there's more than a
screenful, just watch the pager).  But yeah, it's not the attnum.

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