On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:09:12 -0600, Michael Schmidt <MichaelMSchmidt@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I've searched the archives and found this question was asked in 2001 but never answered. Does the order of fields in a table make a difference? In Paradox (from whence I come), there was some belief that reliability was increased if memo (text) fields were placed at the end of the table. If field order does make a difference, does the EMS PostgreSQL manager "reorder" function physically rearrange the fields? > > Thanks for your time in considering this basic question Some space can be saved by putting the columns with the largest alignments first. The columns are not moved around to do the above, but are kept in the declared order. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
