Re: Alter column position

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 09:34:50AM -0400, Patrick Rutkowski wrote:
> I'm curious, is there any latest word on this?
>
> (Note that I've read fully the link
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Alter_column_position as well as all
> links stemming from it).

No one's working on it, to my knowledge.  While the "SELECT *" case
doesn't interest me too much, it would be part of the infrastructure
needed for PostgreSQL to optimize storage by placing all fixed-length
columns before any variable-length ones.

Cheers,
David.
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