Am Mittwoch, 20. Dezember 2006 14:20 schrieb Kenneth Marshall: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 01:26:59PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 20. Dezember 2006 04:44 schrieb Tom Lane: > > > If you can show me a reasonably bulletproof or machine-checkable way to > > > keep the two kinds of column numbers distinct, I'd be all for it. > > > > The only way I can see is to make the domains of the numbers distinct. > > Negative vs. positive numbers?
That would be an obvious choice, but negative column numbers are already in use for system columns. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly