Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com> writes:
> The proposal does beg the question:
> Why would a default tuple-attribute order be stored in the database
> but not relation-tuple order?
A good argument in terms of pure relational-calculus theory ... but
we're dealing with SQL here, not relational calculus. The SQL spec
explicitly states that column ordering is significant while row ordering
is not.
regards, tom lane