Re: full featured alter table?

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim C Nasby <jim@nasby.net> writes:

Jim> The one thing we don't have that I think would be useful is a way to
Jim> re-order the columns in a table. Maybe it's just me, but I tend to want
Jim> column to appear in a specific order, and the only way you can
Jim> accomplish this today is by re-creating the entire table.

Column order shouldn't matter.  It matters only when you say "SELECT *",
and the best literature out there warns against the foibles of such.

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