MS SQL Server allows this too. I do it all the time. -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Kellerer <shammat@xxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2021 1:09 AM To: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Reordering the fields in a table Wells Oliver schrieb am 17.04.2021 um 00:28: > If it helps the cause, I would love this too, in addition to having > the ability to ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN with the ability to specify > where in the column order. This ends up being a bigger frustration for > a lot of people than it should be, and maybe it's a touch of OCD, but > most RDBMS packages allow this "Most" seems a bit of a stretch. To my knowledge it's only supported in MySQL, Firebird and Informix. You can't do this in Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Teradata, Ingres, Vertica or SAP Hana.