Tony Caduto schrieb: > I think a client that tells me the columns are a, b, c but then > >> gives me an error on "insert into table values (aval, bval, cval)" >> because >> the actual logical order is different is probably fairly broken. > > > I guess that could be a problem, I was thinking in terms of how I do a > insert, I rarely do it that way, I usually specify the columns by name i.e. > insert into blabla (fieldname1,fieldname2) values('bla','bla') > > oh well, there goes that idea :-) Maybe you can save it if you "mis"-use the column comments and make your gui-client oder on: attnum or column-name or comment. And if you have a table where you still cannot find the column you want, there is a strong evidence for redesign I'd say ;) Regards Tino