On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 09:52 -0800, David Fetter wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:28:03AM -0600, Tony Caduto wrote: > > As long as we are talking wish lists... > > > > What I would like to see is some way to change the ordering of the > > fields without having to drop and recreate the table. > > Why are you asking us to optimize the 'SELECT *' case which almost > never belongs in production code in the 1st place? Because a lot of tools that I use to manage a database during *development* (e.g. PgAdmin) show the columns in an other order than the order of attributes in my Java/C++ code. The "logical" order of the columns/attributes can change during development. -- Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenstraat 14 6524NB Nijmegen tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277 fax: 024-3608416 e-mail: J.Kraaijeveld@xxxxxxxxxx web: www.askesis.nl
