Re: Regarding column reordering project for GSoc 2012

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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">HiDave,</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><pclass="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Ibelieve,with the ALTER command,we plan to
givethe user power to modify ordering . Don’t we?</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><pclass="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Atri</span><pclass="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><div
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><spanlang="EN-US"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Dave Page [mailto:dpage@pgadmin.org] <br /><b>Sent:</b> 18
March2012 00:46<br /><b>To:</b> Atri Sharma<br /><b>Cc:</b> Alvaro Herrera; Pg Hackers<br /><b>Subject:</b> Re:
[HACKERS]Regarding column reordering project for GSoc 2012</span></div><p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br/><br />On Saturday, March 17, 2012, Atri Sharma <<a
href="mailto:atri.jiit@gmail.com">atri.jiit@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br />> Hi Alvaro,<br />> Thanks for going
throughmy description.<br />><br />><br />> I was going through the posts,when I realised that if we give each
clientthe flexibility of defining his/her own order with complete control,that would be probably the right
way(IMHO).<br/>><br />> I mean,if the user sees,not the physical implementation,but a customizable interface
instead,whichis mapped to the physical implementation,then,we can solve to some extent,the problem of logical/physical
decoupling.<br/><br />Anything done in the client bar changing the column it orders on (which ideally should be avoided
tooif practical) is going to lead to pain and suffering as some will do it, some won't, and a few might get it
wrong.<br/><br />-- <br />Dave Page<br />Blog: <a href="http://pgsnake.blogspot.com"
target="_blank">http://pgsnake.blogspot.com</a><br/>Twitter: @pgsnake<br /><br />EnterpriseDB UK: <a
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