Re: Pet Peeves?

On Feb 3, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:

> What about postgreSQL's inability to re-order columns?
>
> Please don't point out that I shouldn't rely on things being in a
> certain order when I SELECT * FROM table. I'm well aware of that, I
> just generally have an aesthetic preference for a table's columns
> being in a certain order.

Somewhat related, it would be nice if columns had a unique identifier
in the catalog rather than just a sequence number for the table. This
would make it possible to distinguish between altering a column versus
dropping/adding when comparing schemas or detecting DDL changes.



John DeSoi, Ph.D.