On Jan 19, 2006, at 9:10 , Jim C. Nasby wrote:
It would definately be nice if the end-user concept of column order wasn't tied to the physical order in the database.
Tom Lane has mentioned at least a couple of times that decoupling the (SQL-required) logical order from the physical order is probably pretty hairy and would lead to easy to make and hard to track down bugs and I don't doubt that it's pretty detailed and complicated work. If someone were so inclined, they could probably look into this more closely and see what it would take to create a clean, easy-to- use and easy-to-maintain interface between the physical and logical data representation (including column order).
Michael Glaesemann grzm myrealbox com
