Re: Alter column position

Hmm, interesting.

Though I do see how the performance bumps could be useful, I would still bet that the huge majority of users who utters
thewords "damn, I wish I could re-order columns" are just talking about the visual order in psql(1) or PgAdminIII. 

On May 22, 2010, at 10:49 AM, David Fetter wrote:

> 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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