David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Although it might be nice to have different column orderings, say > per-role, the SQL:2003 standard requires a single canonical ordering > in the information schema. How would we handle both? If you want some other column ordering, you make a view. The only thing we're really lacking to make that a fully acceptable answer is automatically-updatable views, which I believe someone is working on... regards, tom lane