"Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Actually, I'm pretty sure this is on the TODO. [ checks... ] No, it isn't. My recollection is that we looked very hard at this around the time DROP COLUMN was implemented, and concluded that we weren't ever going to support it, because distinguishing physical from logical column numbers would create a nigh-inexhaustible source of bugs. See the pghackers archives for lots of discussion. regards, tom lane