Re: full featured alter table?

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 06:49:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> What would make more sense to me than a tightly-wrapped-up ALTER command
> at the SQL level is some sort of interactive conversion wizard, perhaps
> as part of phppgadmin or Red Hat's graphical tool suite.  It could walk
> you through all these considerations, get your okay on each nontrivial
> semantic change, and then apply all the operations within a single
> transaction.  AFAIK we have all the ALTER functionality needed to
> support such a tool.

The one thing we don't have that I think would be useful is a way to
re-order the columns in a table. Maybe it's just me, but I tend to want
column to appear in a specific order, and the only way you can
accomplish this today is by re-creating the entire table.
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