On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 11:37, Gavin Sherry wrote: > I cannot think of any reason why changing column order should be > implemented in Postgres. Seems like a waste of time/more code bloat for > something which is strictly asthetic. > > Regardless, I do have collegues/clients who ask when such a feature will > be implemented. Why is this useful?
Has column ordering any effect on the physical tuple disposition? I've heard discussions about keeping fixed-size fields at the beginning of the tuple and similar. Sorry for the lame question. :-) -- Alessio F. Bragadini [EMAIL PROTECTED] APL Financial Services http://village.albourne.com Nicosia, Cyprus phone: +357-22-755750 "It is more complicated than you think" -- The Eighth Networking Truth from RFC 1925 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
